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 ...
No. 3 Michael Holding: 8 for 92 and 6 for 57 England v West Indies, The Oval, 1976 It was a searing summer. The weather was hot and so was the West Indies bowling. This was the summer of grovel, and ...
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 ...
One of the very first cricket books I was ever given, on the occasion of my tenth birthday, was a slim black paperback called Great Australian Cricket Pictures (1975). When I retrieve it from the ...
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 ...
There is no blinding revelation in the story of Kane Williamson's ascendancy. There is no Disney storyline of a boy from Tauranga fighting the odds on his way to the top. There are no mean streets ...
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 ...
The West Indies white-ball coach is on a mission to remould the T20 side into the world-beating force they once were This September marks 20 years since West Indies secured the most unlikely of all ...
What began as a technical tweak for one Aussie batsman is now a nationwide fad. And not everyone is impressed For the first 128 years of Australia's Test history, there was one constant in a boundless ...
A catalogue of police errors, a bizarre inquest, media-driven conspiracy theories. An attempt at unwrapping one of cricket's greatest mysteries On the occasion of Bob Woolmer's tenth death anniversary ...
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 ...
When Sir Donald Bradman left us for the cricket ground in the sky in 2001, I was absolutely humbled to be asked at his memorial service… My time for the song arrived. The television crew directed me ...