About 80 years ago, as war raged around the world, a British army man tried to spread the gospel of the game in north-east ...

Where was cricket first played in India? Which village match was interrupted by an air raid? Cricketing excavations from Gujarat and Kent When I was a boy my parents told me the first cricket match I ...

Golf perhaps has been among the most dangerous of these. It's taken out the biggest names in cricket - Glenn Maxwell fell off ...

It is July 1998. I am 13 years old and watching cricket on the TV in my grandparents' house in Manchester. The Test between England and South Africa is being played a few miles away, at Old Trafford.

Have you ever had a glass of champagne on an empty stomach at 10.15 in the morning? The world is at once full of golden excitement, but it's all faintly unreal. As I left St John's Wood Tube station ...

The best World Cup. Ponting on ODIs and World Cups. What Afridi means to Pakistan. Dravid on 1999. South Africa and choking: myth or real?

Stuart Broad was born in England but made in Australia. His win-at-most-costs approach has ensured a complicated relationship with both countries. In Australia, during the 2013-14 Ashes, he was the ...

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 ...

6/14 MF Maharoof Sri Lanka v West Indies at Mumbai (BS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2006/07 [2428] 5/11 Shahid Afridi Pakistan v Kenya at Birmingham, ICC Champions Trophy, 2004 [2174] 5/21 M Ntini South ...

The spinmeister Shane Warne "He was hitting the same ball through cover or whipping it through midwicket" What I remember about that Test match is that Steve Waugh and a few others got a bit carried ...

The game turfed Ian Meckiff out in his prime. More than 50 years on, he still doesn't have a bad word to say about it Some cricketers are lucky enough to leave the game on their own terms. Others get ...

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 ...