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Derek Raymond Pringle (born Nairobi, Kenya 18 September 1958) is an English cricket journalist and a retired cricketer.

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England revel in New Zealand Test win

An England Test win on St Patrick's Day was a combination that didn't leave too many of Wellington's hostelries free of revellers. One place mercifully free of shamrock tattoos and sunburnt beer bellies was the San Francisco Bath House, a music venue ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  18 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Mike Selvey,  Jacques Brel,  Neil Young,  David Lloyd,  Rod Stewart

Steve Harmison should learn from Emery

Bumping around our hotel in Hamilton are sundry tour parties here for the cricket. Most have chaperones who used to play cricket for county or country, convivial sorts who can mix cricket chat with the more serious business of checking their group's ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  7 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Steve Harmison,  Malcolm Marshall

England find danger in the nets

The England nets are becoming a dangerous place. One day after the team's security officer Reg Dickason faced an over from Ryan Sidebottom and gained a bruised foot for his troubles, deputy wicket-keeper Phil Mustard had his nose broken by Kevin ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  4 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Ryan Sidebottom,  Kevin Pietersen,  Monty Panesar,  Matthew Hoggard

Matthew Hayden should not be punished

After the put-down and the punishment comes the pow-wow, with Cricket Australia bigwigs to meet with senior players over what some see as a disintegrating relationship between the two. Foul-mouthed: Hayden was punished for his comments on Singh It is a ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  29 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Matthew Hayden,  Harbhajan Singh,  Steve Waugh,  Jeff Thomson,  Dennis Lillee

England avoid 'The House of Pain'

England's two warm-up games are being played in Dunedin, a city in the south-eastern corner of New Zealand's South Island. Named after the old celtic world for Edinburgh, the city has arguably the world's steepest street, a thigh-bursting one in three ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  25 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Henry Blofeld

Wright reawakens sentimental itch

Luke Wright's marvellous feat of preventing New Zealand scoring seven runs off the final over last Wednesday, reawakened an old sentimental itch about the last over entrusted to me in the 1985 NatWest Trophy final against Notts. Essex were a fine ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  22 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Luke Wright

New Zealand offers folksy charm

Anyone still requiring proof of Charles Darwin's theory that the human race is descended from apes only has to spend a Friday or Saturday in Auckland to know it is true. Scenic: views of New Zealand, without the rain Too much strong drink has caused ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  18 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Charles Darwin

Music to Pringle's ears

Auckland is New Zealand’s biggest city and sits on an isthmus surrounded by water. Its size means there are more things to do here with more people doing them, a mathematical relationship that almost gives it a buzz. Just not cricket: PJ Harvey, one ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  13 Feb 2008
Related Topics: PJ Harvey,  Patti Smith,  Paul Newman

England discover perils of New Zealand

One of the pleasures of touring New Zealand is that you can get around most of it by car. Seduced by the spectacular vistas and toothsome wineries to be found almost at every turn, Sir Ian Botham has hired a Porsche 4x4 (he needed something spacious to ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  11 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Ian Botham,  Porsche

Cricket claims another under pressure

Fragility is not a word that readily springs to mind when encountering Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait. Whether on or off the field the impression is of a strapping athlete, an assessment more than borne out by those who have faced his fearsome 90mph ...

From DEREK PRINGLE, The Telegraph,  6 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Shaun Tait,  Marcus Trescothick,  Keith Miller,  Ricky Ponting,  David Gower

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