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 ...

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 ...

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.

When South African Preston Mommsen first set foot on Scottish shores, little did he know he would one day captain its national team Preston Mommsen is late. It is November 9, Scotland's first day of ...

November 2016 homepage Test cricket's future. Rahane breaks down visualisation techniques. Enjoying cricket's many-barrelled names. Playing in Prague. Bros with mos. Hating to love Hooper. An affair ...

September 2016 homepage The rise of Bangladesh cricket. Meeting Mithali Raj, and Nepal's first woman CEO. Visiting the Lahore Gymkhana. Five never-ending cricket arguments. Trumper's photograph. A ...

David Warner's is the tale of a man wired differently - and also a portrait of an age in the sport To hijack Erapalli Prasanna's maxim about line and length, I sometimes think sport is optional, ...

For years I hated cricket. Foisted upon me by my English family in the 1970s, cricket seemed so boring and… bonkers. I mean, all sports are absurd - punching people, racing animals, kicking, throwing, ...

In February 1999 I went to watch a cricket match for the first time in a stadium and was witness to a moment in history. Pakistan, on tour in India after 12 years amid the latest peace initiative ...