The Cricketer Magazine | March 2026
Storm clouds over Hove feature on the cover of the March 2026 issue of The Cricketer. Editor Huw Turbervill argues that crisis club Sussex and the non-Hundred-hosting counties should be given the full amount of money – £20m plus – now, but George Dobell says the ECB are right to keep it safe.
• We discover what the non-hosting counties plan to do with the money
• George Dobell says political grandstanding by the BCCI is turning world cricket into a farce
• James Coyne says the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh crisis was notable for its silence from England and Australia
• Mike Brearley feels saddened by two-day Tests in the Ashes
• Simon Barnes recalls a previous time England decided on a bootcamp approach, at the Nehru Cup in 1989
• Derek Pringle celebrates his old county Essex’s 150th birthday
• Michael Vaughan says a new state-school tournament with a final at Lord’s will boost England’s Ashes hopes
• Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham says efforts should be redoubled to get cricket in state schools
• Nasser Hussain talks about his interview with Brendon McCullum at Sydney
• Sussex’s James Coles is interviewed by Nick Friend
• South African batting ace Herschelle Gibbs features in ‘facing up’
• Mike Selvey recalls Middlesex’s pre-season trip to West Germany in 1976
• Paul Edwards says it is vital to keep cricket’s past alive in museums and exhibitions
• Jarrod Kimber analyses why England are so bad in Australia
• Nick Friend says Alyssa Healy’s successor as Australia captain, Sophie Molineux, is an unusual choice
• Tanya Aldred picks Rachael Heyhoe Flint as her favourite cricketer
• We spend a day in the life of the ECB’s Beth Barrett-Wild
• We find out whatever happened to Rev Canon Andrew Wingfield Digby
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Cricketer Magazine March 2026.