Using customised algorithms, I created a shortlist of a dozen or so matches for each team. More for teams like Australia and England, and fewer for teams like Sri Lanka. Then I went over the ...

Natarajan's emergence from his village and his circumstances was remarkable enough. Now he's trying to make sure others do too Chinnappampatti in Tamil Nadu was undetectable on most maps until T ...

The India and Royal Challengers Bangalore player talks about the craft of one of the most formidable weapons in the fast bowler's arsenal A slower ball, in theory, might sound like it ought not to be ...

The art of catching the cricket ball after it has taken the outside edge is a special gift. Some do it well, some not so well, and then there are the gifted few who do it with what appears to be ...

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 ...

On a muggy late-September morning in Jalandhar's Bhargav Camp, I walked down a street, barely wide enough for a car and an autorickshaw to pass each other, lined with old one-storey homes. A tangle of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The co-owner of the world's most famous football club tried and failed to buy an IPL franchise, but he's made up now November 2021. Officials at the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) are at Dubai ...

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 ...

The Australia captain talks about her batting ambitions, how she has matured as a leader, and watching Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy grow into superstars Meg Lanning, the Australia women's captain, ...

At 11 minutes past ten o'clock on a steamy Sunday night in Kolkata, as Daren Sammy carved a ball straight into the gullet of the deep-point fielder, leaving his team wobbling at 107 for 6… as the ...