There has been a wider explosion of the carrom ball too, in the decade and a half since Ajantha Mendis popularised it, and every second squad in every T20 league seems to include someone who bowls it.

In the first of a series on cricket in fiction, a look at Chinaman, in which the game isn't so much plot driver as plinth There is more cricket fiction than is probably thought to exist. Screeds of it ...

South Africa, now settled as a top-level team, and with a strong domestic scene supporting the Test environment, finished ...

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 ...

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 first time M Kandeepan visited the emigration centre in his city in 1993, the man in combat gear behind the desk asked why he wanted to leave. "I want to go and play cricket." "Play cricket where?

No. 3 Michael Holding: 8 for 92 and 6 for 57 England v West Indies, The Oval, 1976 It was a searing summer. The weather was hot and so was the West Indies bowling. This was the summer of grovel, and ...

On Carnival Tuesday, the climax of the season of festivities in Trinidad and Tobago, Asami Nagakiya was murdered; her body, found on Ash Wednesday, was still clad in her costume. Asami, a petite ...

Malcolm Nash, the man Sobers flayed for six sixes in an over back in 1968, now battles for his health and his reputation We arrange to meet at his local golf club - a quite stunning setting, situated ...

How important is chemistry between openers? Justin Langer: Matty Hayden is one of my best friends. He is a bit like my brother. I remember Mark Taylor, when he went through that really tough run in ...

If you have ever watched a Sheffield Shield game at the WACA in Perth, you may have seen him - an elderly gentleman strolling back and forth between his two favourite viewing positions at square leg ...

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 ...