The KKR vice-captain talks about why he focuses on impact rather than just run-scoring, his Rs 20-crore price tag, and why he ...

There was drama and chaos at the end of the 2022 Blast final. Who would hold their nerve to make it past the line?

April 2016 homepage The complex career of Younis Khan. The Fawad Ahmed story. Sexism in cricket. Psychology of debuts. Cricket in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Who's cricket's greatest bastard?

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

Bad boy WG Grace is easy to love but good boy WG Grace (and the accompanying legend) is hard to bear Everyone knows WG Grace. He isn't synonymous with cricket; he's been in a partnership with it since ...

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 ...

How could I not hate Brian Lara? He was exactly the kind of cocky, flashy show-off that Australians are trained from birth to despise: especially if the show-off is not Australian; and doubly so if ...

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 ...

Close of play: Day 1: Essex 317/4 (Perrin 148*, Lucas 33*) Day 2: Essex 454, Derbyshire 232/6 (Ashcroft 7*, Ellis 3*) Essex 1st innings GW Ayres c Hulme b Bestwick 40 HA Carpenter b Hulme 9 PA Perrin ...