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.

Most of the last 225 Tests have been played under the three World Test Championship cycles, starting with the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston in 2019. That leaves over 2350 Tests that haven't been in a ...

Stuart Broad was born in England but made in Australia. His win-at-most-costs approach has ensured a complicated relationship with both countries. In Australia, during the 2013-14 Ashes, he was the ...

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 ...

May 2015 homepage Warner's evolution from good hitter to good batsman. The ageing of Lillee. Gully cricket rolls on in modern India. The greatest slip catcher. How race colours South African cricket.

For years I hated cricket. Foisted upon me by my English family in the 1970s, cricket seemed so boring and… bonkers. I mean, all sports are absurd - punching people, racing animals, kicking, throwing, ...

If you're a fan of West Indian cricket, you're likely to fall in love with the region's literature It was the last day of the last match between Trinidad and Jamaica. Gerry Gomez and Len Harbin were ...

November 2016 homepage Test cricket's future. Rahane breaks down visualisation techniques. Enjoying cricket's many-barrelled names. Playing in Prague. Bros with mos. Hating to love Hooper. An affair ...

David Warner's is the tale of a man wired differently - and also a portrait of an age in the sport To hijack Erapalli Prasanna's maxim about line and length, I sometimes think sport is optional, ...

September 2016 homepage The rise of Bangladesh cricket. Meeting Mithali Raj, and Nepal's first woman CEO. Visiting the Lahore Gymkhana. Five never-ending cricket arguments. Trumper's photograph. A ...

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 ...