If the 24 Tests - among the greatest ever played - for the top eight teams form the base of the crown, the eight Tests ...

Srinivasan's kingdom and Dhoni's adopted home is at the centre of cricket's universe, but what has that meant for the fabric of the game in the city? Have you ever seen Shahrukh Khan bat?" a senior ...

Natarajan's emergence from his village and his circumstances was remarkable enough. Now he's trying to make sure others do too Chinnappampatti in Tamil Nadu was undetectable on most maps until T ...

The India and Royal Challengers Bangalore player talks about the craft of one of the most formidable weapons in the fast bowler's arsenal A slower ball, in theory, might sound like it ought not to be ...

Moeen Ali is an unlikely recipient of death threats. He is an unlikely victim of booing, too. And of a hit-and-run driver seemingly determined to kill him. An elegant batsman and a soft-spoken man ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 11 minutes past ten o'clock on a steamy Sunday night in Kolkata, as Daren Sammy carved a ball straight into the gullet of the deep-point fielder, leaving his team wobbling at 107 for 6… as the ...

One of the very first cricket books I was ever given, on the occasion of my tenth birthday, was a slim black paperback called Great Australian Cricket Pictures (1975). When I retrieve it from the ...

She was the first woman of Aboriginal descent to represent Australia in any sport, but that's just part of her story Of all the names it had to be Wami Kata. An old folks' home in Port Augusta, Wami ...

What if there was an office he could go to, shut the door, do the thing that was inside him and no one ever had to see it? Lillee in crotch-high shorts, black-bearded and leonine, stands by the bonnet ...