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

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

"12pm, Gymkhana Grounds," reads a text from Mithali Raj. "You're well before time," I tell her as she gets out of her self-driven BMW a little later and drags two chairs to the boundary rope.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...