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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

November 2015 homepage Brendon McCullum and the new New Zealand. Moeen and multiculturalism. Tape-ball cricket in Karachi. Bat wars in India. Mashrafe's flame. Hating to love Sanga. Fearing a ...

The spinmeister Shane Warne "He was hitting the same ball through cover or whipping it through midwicket" What I remember about that Test match is that Steve Waugh and a few others got a bit carried ...

The game turfed Ian Meckiff out in his prime. More than 50 years on, he still doesn't have a bad word to say about it Some cricketers are lucky enough to leave the game on their own terms. Others get ...

There is a connection between Hamilton Masakadza and the boy holding a piece of firewood. More than two decades ago in this neighbourhood, Masakadza was handed a foreign object and taught the game ...

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 ...

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 ...