L ast month Pakistan kicked up a bit of a storm when they decided to dry-roast the Rawalpindi pitch to make it ...
Imagine a park without a single blade of grass, with no greenery save a few trees and shrubs of acacia. Garbage is strewn around liberally and donkeys occasionally bray from one corner. In another ...
To watch highlights now of the 1975 World Cup final is to open a kind of time capsule whose contents are recognisable but obviously of a cricket world now long bygone. Helmetless batsmen whirling slim ...
From the north-east of Australia down to the south of India, from the '60s to the '90s, our jurors pick their favourites Queensland Bulls 1994-95 - 2001-02: five Sheffield Shield and Pura Cup ...
In the '70s I was always Chappelli. Backyard cricket with my competitive neighbour John was epic. I always batted and was Australia's No. 3. He bowled. He was often one of those fearsome quicks from ...
ODI # 2598: England v West Indies at Nottingham, NatWest Series, 07/07/2007 ...
ODI # 2172: Australia v United States of America at Southampton, ICC Champions Trophy, 13/09/2004 ...
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 ...
No. 2 Ian Botham: 50 and 149 not out; 6 for 95 and 1 for 14 England v Australia, Headingley, 1981 Ian Botham's confidence was low and his mood unpredictable when England arrived for the third Test at ...
I am, apparently, a Maheliac. I did not know this, and did not know such a species existed, until I wrote a pair of columns over the last year on the retirements of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar ...
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 ...
Srinivasan's kingdom and Dhoni's adopted home is at the centre of cricket's universe, but what has that meant for the fabric of the game in the city? Have you ever seen Shahrukh Khan bat?" a senior ...