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

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IPL gets a bad rap. Many bad raps. So regularly that Bad Rap could well be an invisible franchise by itself. This season, when matches scheduled to be played in Maharashtra in May were relocated ...

Stats. I love stats. You can bend them, shape them, twist them, and palpate them until they tell you want you want to hear. However, traditional statistics are of minimal use when it comes to fielding ...

Rather than go for the greatest delivery, I am going for the one that made the most impact on a young fan. These things are entirely subjective, though Shane Warne had a good crack at contradicting ...

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 ...

I looked at the facts before I started writing this. Big mistake. Huge. Because it's not about facts at all. It's about memory. It's not what happens that matters: it's what you think happens. We all ...

He kept his cool to create Test cricket's most exciting moment. And Joe Solomon, now 86, is still cool Joe Solomon waits. He stands at backward square-leg, closer in than usual. Everyone is closer ...