Stuart Broad was born in England but made in Australia. His win-at-most-costs approach has ensured a complicated relationship with both countries. In Australia, during the 2013-14 Ashes, he was the ...
There has been a wider explosion of the carrom ball too, in the decade and a half since Ajantha Mendis popularised it, and every second squad in every T20 league seems to include someone who bowls it.
In the first of a series on cricket in fiction, a look at Chinaman, in which the game isn't so much plot driver as plinth There is more cricket fiction than is probably thought to exist. Screeds of it ...
September 2016 homepage The rise of Bangladesh cricket. Meeting Mithali Raj, and Nepal's first woman CEO. Visiting the Lahore Gymkhana. Five never-ending cricket arguments. Trumper's photograph. A ...
Most of the last 225 Tests have been played under the three World Test Championship cycles, starting with the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston in 2019. That leaves over 2350 Tests that haven't been in a ...
November 2015 homepage Brendon McCullum and the new New Zealand. Moeen and multiculturalism. Tape-ball cricket in Karachi. Bat wars in India. Mashrafe's flame. Hating to love Sanga. Fearing a ...
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 ...
The game turfed Ian Meckiff out in his prime. More than 50 years on, he still doesn't have a bad word to say about it Some cricketers are lucky enough to leave the game on their own terms. Others get ...
How important is chemistry between openers? Justin Langer: Matty Hayden is one of my best friends. He is a bit like my brother. I remember Mark Taylor, when he went through that really tough run in ...
There is a connection between Hamilton Masakadza and the boy holding a piece of firewood. More than two decades ago in this neighbourhood, Masakadza was handed a foreign object and taught the game ...
He kept his cool to create Test cricket's most exciting moment. And Joe Solomon, now 86, is still cool Joe Solomon waits. He stands at backward square-leg, closer in than usual. Everyone is closer ...