He had the batting skills and the legspin variations that are greatly valued in the shortest format today P erhaps it isn't ...

About 80 years ago, as war raged around the world, a British army man tried to spread the gospel of the game in north-east ...

Golf perhaps has been among the most dangerous of these. It's taken out the biggest names in cricket - Glenn Maxwell fell off ...

It was a throwaway remark from Brendon McCullum, made when he was giving a Sky Sports "Masterclass" to UK viewers, but as with Virender Sehwag's irreducible and immortal "see ball, hit ball", it is a ...

Waipawa lies in deepest, darkest Hawke's Bay, a 45-minute drive south of Napier, first-class cricket's most easterly outpost. The journey takes you through dusty, dry farmland and rolling hills of ...

Batting is about death. And life of course. It's all about how useful - how good - a life you lead before you die. You are surrounded by pitfalls and bayed about by enemies, but the good person will ...

Marvellous Mr Maxwell. Reverse swing in England. Australia's cricket statues. An all-time fielders' XI. Javagal Srinath. Cricketing relatives. Ranatunga's spats ...

Cricket is an almost endlessly adaptable game. You can play it almost anywhere (and I have). In office corridors, on mountaintops or meadows, on beaches or in crowded gallis. No matter how confined ...

I knew this wasn't going to be pretty. It wasn't, particularly. First ball I bowled to him - my first ball in Test cricket - a half-volley on leg stump: clipped, timed nicely, towards Craig Cumming at ...

May 2017 homepage IPL tales. Afghans in Austria. Last-wicket stands. Warm-up matches. The deadly Andy Roberts. Cricket songs. Branding in sports ...