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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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?

New Zealand's tour of Pakistan in 1990 was the series that heralded Waqar Younis as Pakistan's next fast bowling sensation. The three Tests were played under a cloud, with allegations of ...

February 2016 homepage The making of Ravindra Jadeja. Cricket in Belize. Hating to love Sourav. Bradman music. Pitching for more women's Tests. The best of comical Inzi. The world of player agents.

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.

The greatest ODI player. Viv on Viv. Aboriginal cricket in Australia. Meet Mazhar Majeed. Sri Lanka's 1996 fairy tale. New England rising. Croft on Lillee.

For two decades an avuncular figure in Perth has shepherded bowlers with suspect actions. And there's more to Daryl Foster than that To those who have not lived here, the words "Perth winter" sound ...

May 2015 homepage Warner's evolution from good hitter to good batsman. The ageing of Lillee. Gully cricket rolls on in modern India. The greatest slip catcher. How race colours South African cricket.