Shardul Thakur, Cheteshwar Pujara, Vikram Rathour and others talk about the Brisbane classic, one of the all-time great Tests ...

What a difficult choice. Trumper, my favourite cricketer of all time? I've seen film of him. From memory, he's wearing a large broad-brimmed hat and lashes a short ball over gully for four. Sobers?

ODI #2839: South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, Australia in South Africa 3rd ODI, 9 Apr 2009 ...

ODI #2839: South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, Australia in South Africa 3rd ODI, 9 Apr 2009 ...

Sri Lanka were struggling on a long southern-hemisphere tour, losing Test series 0-1 in New Zealand and 0-2 in Australia. The selectors decided to jettison Dinesh Chandimal as captain and install ...

A street in Calcutta. (Though it could be any city in the region.) Late 1980s. Babu has the bat. Raju has the ball. A run-up of about 12 steps - everyone bowled a shade of fast, like they did ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a park without a single blade of grass, with no greenery save a few trees and shrubs of acacia. Garbage is strewn around liberally and donkeys occasionally bray from one corner. In another ...

The elderly man sat alone at a small table in the Dorset Square Hotel, a pricey establishment occupying that patch of Marylebone where Thomas Lord cut and rolled his first field at the end of the 18th ...