The Cricket Paper

Treat yourself and/or your family & friends to a weekly copy of The Cricket Paper and earn Stoke funds.

The Cricket Paper is the UK’s only all cricketing weekly newspaper covering matches from around the world, from elite level to local domestic cricket, with articles from leading voices in the industry.

Read the latest from the cricket world as well as the usual features, news, exclusives and much, much more.

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Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in this week’s edition of TCP

• England are through to the Women’s World Cup Final. A preview of the showdown at the Home of Cricket.
• Alison Mitchell picks her star-studded team of the Women’s World Cup.
• Peter Hayter and Derek Pringle on Ian Botham’s exploits 40 years on from his Test debut.
• All the fallout from a humiliating second Test defeat for England at the hands of South Africa.
• “No More Mr Nice Guy!” Chris Stocks says Trevor Bayliss must get tough to deliver the Test results England crave.
• Proteas choose rest over practice ahead of third Test – but is it the right call?
• With the 100th Test at the Oval looming, Roderick Easdale picks 10 epic battles on the famous south London ground.
• Adam Collins says England have it all to do to wipe away the memory of their 2013-14 hammering Down Under.
• Paul Nixon on why he would have made a different selection to that of the ECB.
• Tim Wigmore welcomes a softening of the West Indies Cricket Board stance which will allow their big names back into the international fold.
• The latest from the T20 Blast as Kevin Pietersen starts his spell at Surrey with a blistering half-century.
• Mark Footitt on leaving Surrey and returning to hometown club Nottinghamshire.
• All the results and news from up and down the country in the ECB Premier Leagues.