Test cricket has had a fabulous year, and despite its flaws, cricket is growing, but the calendar is a cause for concern ...

Close of play: Day 1: Lord Tennyson's XI 355/8 (GD Kemp-Welch 172*, GTS Stevens 4*) Day 2: Lord Tennyson's XI 402, Jamaica 228 Day 3: Lord Tennyson's XI 188, Jamaica 92/1 (GA Headley 26*, RK Nunes 29* ...

June 2016 homepage Meet Ed Joyce and family. Rwanda's cricket story. The IPL's women commentators. When the indoor game was the rage. The worst cricket clichés. Bourda nostalgia. The life of Greg ...

Imagine the scene: a dusty alley in a colonial town built near the ruins of one of the oldest learning centres in the world. It is afternoon and the call for asr prayer is reverberating around the ...

"I've never doubted my batting ability from the day I could hold a piece of wood between two small grimy hands." - Rohan Kanhai, Blasting for Runs This consuming confidence in self was released in ...

What's your most cherished cricket memory? Hitting a six at the Wankhede in a friendly match where we got creamed. If you were the coach of the Indian team, what's the first thing you would tell MS ...

Test # 1830: South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town, 3rd Test, 26/01/2007 ...

Rather than go for the greatest delivery, I am going for the one that made the most impact on a young fan. These things are entirely subjective, though Shane Warne had a good crack at contradicting ...

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 ...

"12pm, Gymkhana Grounds," reads a text from Mithali Raj. "You're well before time," I tell her as she gets out of her self-driven BMW a little later and drags two chairs to the boundary rope.

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 ...