Cricket, as America is discovering after the U.S. team’s unlikely progression to the latter stages of the ongoing men’s Twenty20 World Cup being co-hosted by their homeland, is a magnificent sport. It ...

In October 1952, five years after the Indian subcontinent won independence from its British colonial rulers, a young Pakistan cricket team stepped foot in the newly formed Republic of India. They had ...

Pakistan exited cricket’s T20 World Cup at the group stage. Australia – one of the sport’s heavyweights – couldn’t get past the Super 8 stage. And it was at Australia’s expense that Afghanistan ...

I watch grown men in pajamas hit balls with sticks, and then I write about it. This is my job. It’s how I afford food and shelter. Some people are experts at cardiology or architecture or cooking or ...

The dying Sri Lankan cricket journalist who narrates Shehan Karunatilaka’s deranged and gorgeous novel “Chinaman” declares that, “unlike life, sport matters.” At the Grand Prairie Stadium on the ...

The months of April and May mean only one thing for India’s army of cricket fans: the Indian Premier League (IPL). Now in its 18th season, the IPL was cricket’s first franchise style league officially ...

“Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.” The first line of Ashis Nandy’s “The Tao of Cricket”, published more than 30 years ago, seems truer than ever. India is hosting the ...

The months of April and May mean only one thing for India’s army of cricket fans; the Indian Premier League (IPL). Now in its 17th season, the IPL was cricket’s first franchise style league. A ...

When the International Olympic Committee signed off on five new sports for the 2028 Summer Games at a meeting in Mumbai on Monday, much of the attention in the U.S. revolved around the inclusion of ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani, and other deep-pocketed investors worth a collective $126 billion own franchises in Major League Cricket. But launching a new major sports ...

The eyes of the cricket-loving world are fixed on Long Island Sunday, as the Cricket World Cup continues with archrivals Pakistan and India playing before 34,000 diehards. But it’s on a different New ...

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