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2025年1月1日 · Can cricket shrink to save itself? Test cricket has had a fabulous year, and despite its flaws, cricket is growing, but the calendar is a cause for concern

2025年1月4日 · Off the field, we who don't have intimate access to goings-on on the pitch, can gather invaluable information through Hawk-Eye's precision cameras. Apart from the usual data on pace, seam, swing and turn, a person well equipped with knowledge of maths, science, and the handling of the data collected by the system, can tell you how quick a pitch is by the ball's loss of pace upon pitching, the ...

2024年11月22日 · Ramnaresh Sarwan lofted Ajantha Mendis towards long-on during the T20 World Cup match between West Indies and Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge. Back-pedalling towards the boundary edge, Mathews braced himself for the catch, just about took it, but realising his momentum would take him over, he threw the ball up and then fell outside. That wasn't the end of it. Looking up from the grass, Mathews saw ...

2024年11月27日 · S ri Lanka were struggling on a long southern-hemisphere tour, losing Test series 0-1 in New Zealand and 0-2 in Australia. The selectors decided to jettison Dinesh Chandimal as captain and install Dimuth Karunaratne for the two Tests in …

2023年9月8日 · Analysis England became a white-ball force after 2015. Are they still on the cutting edge? Eoin Morgan's revolution culminated in a World Cup title in 2019. What's next?

2024年12月13日 · Shardul Thakur, Cheteshwar Pujara, Vikram Rathour and others talk about the Brisbane classic, one of the all-time great Tests

2025年1月22日 · The answers to the questions that the 438 game threw up - Is this for real? Is this what it's come down to? What even is this? - trod unfamiliar, exhilarating lines; but looking back nearly two decades later, the big numbers, which set the game apart at the time, don't seem as revolutionary by themselves.

2018年10月1日 · A ugust 17, 1920. A leather-bound projectile with a cork core speeds towards a batter. There is nothing extraordinary about the object, or indeed the action of the man who releases it. But a sport is about to change forever.

2012年1月8日 · My greatest regret is that I was not a full-time cricketer. My career figures don't reflect my actual talent. I had a foot in both civil services and cricket. After 1962, my civil services career weighed on my mind and cricket was not my main priority. I never came close to the Test performances of my early years.