What's the best thing about weekend amateur cricket? Pulling into the cool of a stone-flagged country pub at noon on a hot day, knowing you have plenty of time before the game starts. Who would you ...

Cricket Max came to a screeching halt after that 2002 game, and shortly after, T20 cricket took centre stage globally. In ...

In cricket, as in life, it's important to draw boundaries - put up walls, as it were, should the situation demand it. Matches definitely demand it, to keep non-paying spectators out of the ground. But ...

At Headingley in 1984, Malcolm Marshall summed up the fierce and terrible beauty of one of the greatest teams of them all The most terrible thing I ever saw on a cricket field took place during the ...

Seam movement is the biggest challenge for batters. They get just under half a second from release to interception. You can imagine the jeopardy caused if the ball also changes direction significantly ...

The art of catching the cricket ball after it has taken the outside edge is a special gift. Some do it well, some not so well, and then there are the gifted few who do it with what appears to be ...

The story of the No. 7 in Test cricket is, in essence, the story of the wicketkeeper as batsman. In the formative years of Test cricket, keepers seldom batted at seven. Now, they are mostly cast-iron ...

Some elementary questions are the hardest to answer. Like when Gueorgui, a Bulgarian-American friend, asked: "Is cricket a team game? Or individual?" I wish I could have explained the complexity ...

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 ...

Stuart Broad was born in England but made in Australia. His win-at-most-costs approach has ensured a complicated relationship with both countries. In Australia, during the 2013-14 Ashes, he was the ...