The Corridor (a cricket blog)
Peering down the corridor of uncertainty. It's about cricket, sport and journalism


The sands of time
It’s been fun, this blog. It even got me a job, nearly six years ago, but I’ve barely been able to maintain it the last two or three years. This will be the last post here, and most of the words wi...

Alastair Cook as a choirboy
Take a look at the video below at around 1:11. Yes, it’s Alastair Cook in his days as a chorister at St Paul’s. One point of correction: whoever posted the video to Youtube believes it comes from a...

Who shot Ashley Harvey-Walker?
In the 1970s summer Sunday afternoons meant live cricket on BBC2 and the rheumy pairing of John Arlott and Jim Laker visiting a county ground. Somehow it always seemed to be Ashley Harvey-Walker wh...

Peter Roebuck and Basil D?Oliveira
Thank you for asking: Christmas was suprisingly enjoyable. I listened to the Queen’s Speech, read my 1973 Wisden and the mother of the boy who used to come in to help with the scoreboard brought me...

Down at Third Man on the corruption of cricket
Hello? Coughs. It ain’t half dusty in here. The heavy roller is festooned with cobwebs and mice are nesting in the second XI captain’s box. But the scoreboard seems to be working and there is still...