West Indies have Garry Sobers, we have Geoff Boycott. The officials have Dickie Bird. Nobody played cricket like Sobers. The ...

Danny Morrison, Mike Whitney and Tony Dodemaide remember the last time New Zealand played a Boxing Day Test at the MCG. It was a thriller Richard Hadlee is in a trance. It is his 70th over but the ...

He has come through financial struggles and World Cup heartbreak to reclaim his place among the best and brightest in a resurgent home team It's difficult, without going too far back, to recall when ...

At 11 minutes past ten o'clock on a steamy Sunday night in Kolkata, as Daren Sammy carved a ball straight into the gullet of the deep-point fielder, leaving his team wobbling at 107 for 6… as the ...

How good was Ian Botham? Overall he averaged 28.40 with the ball, 33.54 with the bat. In the first 25 Tests of his 102-Test career, those figures are 18.52 and 40.48; in the final 25, 42.00 bowling, ...

No matter who wins it, the ninth men's T20 World Cup, in June, will showcase a sport that has changed beyond recognition. Cricket has become a commercial behemoth since T20's birth in 2003, with ...

A look back to the time Steven Smith, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne spent paying their dues in club cricket Once upon a time, before cricket's increasingly crowded schedule and players' ...

The RR captain talks about his leadership style, becoming a punching bag for his bowlers, and his conversations with Jadeja and Sangakkara Riyan Parag, who joined Rajasthan Royals in 2019 as a 17-year ...

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 ...

For all its bewildering array of data, cricket statistics still has a few blind spots. One of the most obvious is in the area of missed chances, where there have been few extensive studies. Gerald ...

January, 1985, Madras "Siva Rama Krishna, give us a break at Chepauk." The giant Air India hoarding on Mount Road (now Anna Salai), the nerve centre of the city, bellows out a fervent prayer. It isn't ...