Crispin Andrews
I write for the Cricketer, Cricinfo, Inside Cricket, Inside Sport, the Nightwatchman, Wisden Cricket Monthly, SA Cricket Magazine, the Cricket Paper and many more.
Barry Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Greg Chappell, Kevin Pietersen, Steve Waugh, Kumar Sangakkara, Clive Rice, Mike Procter, Allan Donald, Courtney Walsh, Muttiah Muralitharan. Chris Gayle would get in, if it was a one dayer. Brian Close, Ray Illingworth, David Steele and Darren Goughwould probably find a place for themselves, if they were picking the team. All players I've interviewed.
I write features, interviews, news items, coaching pieces, opinion pieces and analysis. Also crossovers........
Did you know, for instance, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once got W.G. Grace out with a donkey drop? Or that the ghost of Douglas Jardine is supposed to have appeared in the Lord's Long Room. The day after Jardine died.
A few years ago, two German cricket teams played a match on Heligoland, an island with no cars, pollen or cricket pitches. Jack Hobbs opened the bowling for Idle Cricket Club in the Bradford League during the First World War. And if Dickie Bird Ruled the World, he'd make Yorkshire the capital..
Shortlisted for best print writer at British Society Magazine Editors Rising Stars 2016.
TABPI (Trade Association of Business Publishers International) Gold Award winner for Best Special Section as part of the E&T team who produced theJames Bond Spectre special
