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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

January 2015 homepage Afghanistan rising. Holding and Akram on fast bowling. Meet Ajinkya Rahane. Haigh on cricket's what ifs. Five momentous drops. Laxman takes a quiz ...

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

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* ...

For all its bewildering array of data, cricket statistics still has a few blind spots. One of the most obvious is in the area of missed chances, where there have been few extensive studies. Gerald ...

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 ...

The elderly man sat alone at a small table in the Dorset Square Hotel, a pricey establishment occupying that patch of Marylebone where Thomas Lord cut and rolled his first field at the end of the 18th ...