From whingers no one liked to opponents every one adores, New Zealand are the feel-good drama we all want to binge on Third ball of the over, Brendon McCullum comes forward and misses. McCullum has ...

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 ...

X, Instagram and Facebook are hotbeds of ugly name-calling and harassment that causes more harm than might seem likely Imagine if one out of every three messages you received was insulting. Imagine it ...

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 ...

In January 1990, Bharat Arun enjoyed one of his best games as a first-class cricketer. Captaining Tamil Nadu, he rescued them from 112 for 5 with an innings of 141, and followed it up with four ...

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 ...

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 ...

And this, which remains astonishing nearly a decade since it happened. And then there's this. The first clip above is of New Zealand's Glenn Phillips, charging in from deep cover and throwing himself, ...

Using customised algorithms, I created a shortlist of a dozen or so matches for each team. More for teams like Australia and England, and fewer for teams like Sri Lanka. Then I went over the ...

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 ...

In the three years leading up to the 2002 NatWest Series final against England at Lord's, India made it to the finals of nine different multi-team ODI tournaments and lost them all. The last five of ...

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 ...