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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

RK Narayan's beloved novel may be classified as children's cricket fiction, but it is not limited by its genre Swami and Friends, set in a small South Indian town during the final decades of the ...

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 ...

That Sony tape recorder was precious, oh yes. He would cradle it as if it was his infant son. He had bought it back in '75 because the BBC had agreed that he could make a radio programme for "the ...

Type On first glance 27 batting entries to 15 bowling appears to reinforce the enduring partiality towards batsmen. On closer look, it's not so bad: a team usually has six batsmen to four bowlers and ...

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 ...

On Carnival Tuesday, the climax of the season of festivities in Trinidad and Tobago, Asami Nagakiya was murdered; her body, found on Ash Wednesday, was still clad in her costume. Asami, a petite ...

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 ...