Tag Archives: Technology

Feeling is the Thing…: review

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Christian Drury

Sport doesn’t lend itself to the surreal. Yes, the comic, the incongruous, the miraculous even, but not the weird or the unreal. Even then, great sport tends to the elevated rather than the transcendental. The structures that make games workable, … Continue reading →

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Stroke of Genius: review

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Christian Drury

If you’re reading this, you’ll know the picture. You’ll probably know it by the name of its subject: Victor Trumper, for the image and the man have become melded in the cricketing imagination, reduced and enlarged to encompass each other. … Continue reading →

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A Writing Reformation: Does Wisden Still Matter?

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Christian Drury

Flicking idly through an old Wisden, looking for a match report, I found myself in the Schools Cricket section. On one page, playing for Harrow against Eton at Lord’s in 2000, was a certain N.R.D. Compton. He was bowled by … Continue reading →

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A Palpable Hit! DRS and Its Discontents

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Christian Drury

“A hit, a very palpable hit”! As Hamlet and Laertes lunge and parry to their unknowing deaths, one man stands apart from the pride, deception and murderous intrigue. Osric the courtier judges, casting the deciding verdict when the two fighters … Continue reading →

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