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Ed Smith

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Ed Smith is the captain of the Middlesex county cricket team and author of What Sport Tell Us About Life

April 2016

  • Leicester’s manager Claudio Ranieri celebrates with players at the end of the Premier League game with Swansea City on 24 April.

    The magic of Leicester City goes well beyond football

    Ed Smith
    The Premier League has become a case study in capitalism – which is why this underdog team’s success matters

August 2009

  • Revelations of the Ashes

    Ed Smith
    Ed Smith: Beyond the triumph, this series put paid to a host of cliches about cricket and Englishness

February 2009

  • Kevin Pietersen arrives at Heathrow following his resignation

    We need to talk about Kevin

    Ed Smith: Kevin Pietersen's brief tenure tells us essential truths about British society today

August 2008

  • True sport is about much more than counting medals

    Ed Smith

    Ed Smith: Britain's Olympic winners are to be lauded. But the state should always put popular participation ahead of solo, elite efforts

March 2008

  • Ideas from left field

    Ed Smith

    Ed Smith: Sport, like life, is pure Darwinism. It is too innovative to be confined by one political theory

July 2005

  • Patriot game

    Ed Smith: The England batsman and author on how cricket, once so popular in America, was squeezed out by baseball.

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