Before I watched an umpire no-ball Muttiah Muralitharan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, I had no idea that cricket mattered. As I grew up in mid-1990s Sri Lanka, the war bludgeoned its way into ...
What were the greatest Test performances over the last 50 years? How does one weigh up monumental batting feats against epic bowling efforts? These were some of the questions that a panel of 25 ...
Katherine Brunt, Nat Sciver, Amy Satterthwaite, Lea Tahuhu, Lizelle Lee, Megan Schutt, and an anonymous male cricketer talk to us about sexuality Nat Sciver's nights were restless. She was at the 2018 ...
X, Instagram and Facebook are hotbeds of ugly name-calling and harassment that causes more harm than might seem likely Imagine if one out of every three messages you received was insulting. Imagine it ...
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 ...
Junction Oval, February 23, 2019. Queensland are batting against Victoria and Marnus Labuschagne is about to throw another innings away. There's plenty of chatter on the field. A number of Victoria's ...
In January 1990, Bharat Arun enjoyed one of his best games as a first-class cricketer. Captaining Tamil Nadu, he rescued them from 112 for 5 with an innings of 141, and followed it up with four ...
"When you know you are going to #CWC 2023" was the caption for an ICC social post early last July, featuring pictures of jubilant Netherlands players celebrating their win against fellow Associate ...
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 ...
Aloo. Potato. Laddu. A round sweet. Haathi. Elephant. Fatso. Big Boy. Not exactly the kind of motivational messages you would find on the Notes to Strangers Post-its scattered around the London metro, ...
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 ...
In a dark, enclosed school gymnasium, nestled away in the shires of England, Imran Khan changed his game forever. A little bit smaller than a tennis court, with wooden climbing bars adorning the walls ...