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 ...

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 first time M Kandeepan visited the emigration centre in his city in 1993, the man in combat gear behind the desk asked why he wanted to leave. "I want to go and play cricket." "Play cricket where?

On Carnival Tuesday, the climax of the season of festivities in Trinidad and Tobago, Asami Nagakiya was murdered; her body, found on Ash Wednesday, was still clad in her costume. Asami, a petite ...

Malcolm Nash, the man Sobers flayed for six sixes in an over back in 1968, now battles for his health and his reputation We arrange to meet at his local golf club - a quite stunning setting, situated ...

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 ...

If you have ever watched a Sheffield Shield game at the WACA in Perth, you may have seen him - an elderly gentleman strolling back and forth between his two favourite viewing positions at square leg ...

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 ...

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 ...

That Sony tape recorder was precious, oh yes. He would cradle it as if it was his infant son. He had bought it back in '75 because the BBC had agreed that he could make a radio programme for "the ...

The top 50: 1-10 | 11-20 | 21-30 | 31-40 | 41-50 No. 21 Kim Hughes: 100 not out Australia v West Indies, Melbourne, 1981 Boxing Day, 1981. Kim Hughes had not held a bat in a week, family having taken ...