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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 2017 homepage Remembering Martin Crowe. Collapses in the age of run gluts. Modern wicketkeepers. Brutish bouncers. Dubious distinctions. Why sport needs pressure. Cricket and the elements ...