Bangladesh had the chance to show up their dominant neighbour in a crunch game, but one man stood in their way ...

Javed Miandad was the archetypal "champion if he's on your side, bastard if he's an opponent". Or, put another way, he could be an aggrannoying little devil. This term derives from a combination of ...

Waipawa lies in deepest, darkest Hawke's Bay, a 45-minute drive south of Napier, first-class cricket's most easterly outpost. The journey takes you through dusty, dry farmland and rolling hills of ...

Cricket is an almost endlessly adaptable game. You can play it almost anywhere (and I have). In office corridors, on mountaintops or meadows, on beaches or in crowded gallis. No matter how confined ...

He had the batting skills and the legspin variations that are greatly valued in the shortest format today P erhaps it isn't surprising it was Bob Woolmer who unlocked the idea that Shahid Afridi was a ...

May 2017 homepage IPL tales. Afghans in Austria. Last-wicket stands. Warm-up matches. The deadly Andy Roberts. Cricket songs. Branding in sports ...

I knew this wasn't going to be pretty. It wasn't, particularly. First ball I bowled to him - my first ball in Test cricket - a half-volley on leg stump: clipped, timed nicely, towards Craig Cumming at ...

January 2016 homepage VVS, Lara, Holding, Botham and the rest. The magnetic, the princely, the joyous, the mighty: the greatest Test performances of the last 50 years ...

It was a throwaway remark from Brendon McCullum, made when he was giving a Sky Sports "Masterclass" to UK viewers, but as with Virender Sehwag's irreducible and immortal "see ball, hit ball", it is a ...

About 80 years ago, as war raged around the world, a British army man tried to spread the gospel of the game in north-east ...