The 500 T20s club, which already has allrounders Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Shoaib Malik, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell, ...
The question of who has hit the biggest sixes is one of great popular interest. Unfortunately, the level of interest greatly exceeds the amount of reliable information. The vast majority of historical ...
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 ...
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 ...
The art of catching the cricket ball after it has taken the outside edge is a special gift. Some do it well, some not so well, and then there are the gifted few who do it with what appears to be ...
"12pm, Gymkhana Grounds," reads a text from Mithali Raj. "You're well before time," I tell her as she gets out of her self-driven BMW a little later and drags two chairs to the boundary rope.
Less than two days after arriving in Melbourne, six years ago, Fawad Ahmed bought a ticket and hopped aboard a local train. But he had acquired the wrong ticket, and the conductor duly fined him. "I ...
There is no blinding revelation in the story of Kane Williamson's ascendancy. There is no Disney storyline of a boy from Tauranga fighting the odds on his way to the top. There are no mean streets ...
How amateur gusto, cutting-edge coaching and a mixtape came together in a breakout women's tournament 24 years ago Three years ago I went to Eastbourne to interview an old white-haired lady who ...
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 ...
On an overcast Saturday in November 2014 a tall, bow-legged Australian stood in the centre of a shabby concrete stadium in the Magdalena del Mar district of Lima waving his Peruvian identity card in ...
There is an instructive story about the origins of Jamnagar, and it could well be a myth. After Jam Rawal, the ruling prince of Kutch, avenged his father Jam Lakha's murder at the hands of his greedy ...