L ast month Pakistan kicked up a bit of a storm when they decided to dry-roast the Rawalpindi pitch to make it ...

The career of Mark Ramprakash divides quite neatly in half. The first, from 1991 until 2002, in which he played his 52 Test matches and made 2350 runs at 27.32, and the second, from 2002 until 2012, ...

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 ...

No. 3 Michael Holding: 8 for 92 and 6 for 57 England v West Indies, The Oval, 1976 It was a searing summer. The weather was hot and so was the West Indies bowling. This was the summer of grovel, and ...

There is no blinding revelation in the story of Kane Williamson's ascendancy. There is no Disney storyline of a boy from Tauranga fighting the odds on his way to the top. There are no mean streets ...

There is an instructive story about the origins of Jamnagar, and it could well be a myth. After Jam Rawal, the ruling prince of Kutch, avenged his father Jam Lakha's murder at the hands of his greedy ...

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 ...

A certain young musical genius - some claim it was Bach, others swear it was Brahms - liked to sleep in. As the rest of his family started their day, tugging on wigs and lacing up corsets, this ...

Malcolm Nash, the man Sobers flayed for six sixes in an over back in 1968, now battles for his health and his reputation We arrange to meet at his local golf club - a quite stunning setting, situated ...

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 ...

"I was at the 2004 one which India lost," recalls Balraj Matharu, an India fan born and raised in Leeds. "That was annoying. I was up in Edinburgh, where I went to university, but I was ill in ...

At its annual general meeting in July, the ICC decided to reduce the margin of the umpire's-call element in the Decision Review System. The old rule required that at least 50% of the ball must be ...