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Ed Smith

Ed Smith is a journalist and author, most recently of Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters (Bloomsbury, £8.99). He is a former professional cricketer and played for both Middlesex and England. He is on Twitter as @EdSmithWriter. 

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The Ashes has got me falling in love with cricket again
20 July 2013

When he retired from cricket, Ed Smith sought some distance from sport and in particular from cricket. But the first Ashes test of 2013 at Trent Bridge has brought him back to his first love - cricket.

Sport
I’m constantly encouraged to celebrate observing drunk people behaving boringly
18 July 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
A great tennis player knows better than to burn through his matches too quickly
11 July 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Books
The Outsider by Jimmy Connors: Is there a competitive advantage to “assholery”?
27 June 2013

Former tennis player Jimmy Connors' memoir has the ring of honesty, as though he is trying to be entirely straightforward.

Sport
A bastardised understanding of meritocracy has become part of bling self-indulgence
20 June 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Ideas
The Renaissance man should be celebrated, not dismissed as a dilettante
06 June 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
In Britain, as in cricket, the north-south divide is as deep as ever
30 May 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Books
Ignore all The Great Gatsby hype, and read Fitzgerald’s wonderful essays instead
23 May 2013

The prose shines more brightly than any party on Long Island.

Media
Imagine if a government had solved everything it could: would hacks back off?
16 May 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
One was a natural conservative with a deep respect for English traditions – the other was Mrs T
02 May 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

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