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?

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

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 ...

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 ...

How amateur gusto, cutting-edge coaching and a mixtape came together in a breakout women's tournament 24 years ago Three years ago I went to Eastbourne to interview an old white-haired lady who ...

There was a time when fielders being acrobatic on the boundary to save runs or dismiss batters wasn't the norm In cricket's long history, what is now commonplace was once audacious, unseen. In a new ...

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 ...

Close of play: Day 1: Victoria 284, South Africans 7/0 (Christy 3*, Curnow 3*) Day 2: South Africans 212/6 (Morkel 2*, McMillan 0*) Victoria 1st innings *WM Woodfull st Cameron b McMillan 121 WH ...

On a cloudy September day at Lord's in 1972, Lancashire need 235 in 60 overs in the Gillette Cup final. No team, over nine years, has scored so many to win the title. The task gets harder when they ...

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 ...

From the north-east of Australia down to the south of India, from the '60s to the '90s, our jurors pick their favourites Queensland Bulls 1994-95 - 2001-02: five Sheffield Shield and Pura Cup ...