On a muggy late-September morning in Jalandhar's Bhargav Camp, I walked down a street, barely wide enough for a car and an autorickshaw to pass each other, lined with old one-storey homes. A tangle of ...
The 500 T20s club, which already has allrounders Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Shoaib Malik, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell, ...
What began as a technical tweak for one Aussie batsman is now a nationwide fad. And not everyone is impressed For the first 128 years of Australia's Test history, there was one constant in a boundless ...
No. 3 Michael Holding: 8 for 92 and 6 for 57 England v West Indies, The Oval, 1976 It was a searing summer. The weather was hot and so was the West Indies bowling. This was the summer of grovel, and ...
Moeen Ali is an unlikely recipient of death threats. He is an unlikely victim of booing, too. And of a hit-and-run driver seemingly determined to kill him. An elegant batsman and a soft-spoken man ...
The elderly man sat alone at a small table in the Dorset Square Hotel, a pricey establishment occupying that patch of Marylebone where Thomas Lord cut and rolled his first field at the end of the 18th ...
It was perfect that Rangana Herath's parents bought the family their first television shortly before Aravinda de Silva's 1984 debut, because soon de Silva was Herath's favourite player. "When Aravinda ...
The spinmeister Shane Warne "He was hitting the same ball through cover or whipping it through midwicket" What I remember about that Test match is that Steve Waugh and a few others got a bit carried ...
One of the very first cricket books I was ever given, on the occasion of my tenth birthday, was a slim black paperback called Great Australian Cricket Pictures (1975). When I retrieve it from the ...
In a dark, enclosed school gymnasium, nestled away in the shires of England, Imran Khan changed his game forever. A little bit smaller than a tennis court, with wooden climbing bars adorning the walls ...