About 80 years ago, as war raged around the world, a British army man tried to spread the gospel of the game in north-east ...

Golf perhaps has been among the most dangerous of these. It's taken out the biggest names in cricket - Glenn Maxwell fell off ...

Close of play: Day 1: Western Australia 141, Victoria 133/1 (Lawry 71*, Huntington 32*) Day 2: Victoria 431, Western Australia 36/1 (Wishart 10*, Vernon 4*) Day 3: Western Australia 333/9 (Strauss 1*, ...

Close of play: Day 1: Eastern Province 132, Marylebone Cricket Club 96/5 (Crawford 47*, Hartley ?*) Day 2: Eastern Province 1st innings RP Hannam b Hartley 17 AT Lyons b Blythe 2 NS Hobson b Blythe 6 ...

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 ...

February 2016 homepage The making of Ravindra Jadeja. Cricket in Belize. Hating to love Sourav. Bradman music. Pitching for more women's Tests. The best of comical Inzi. The world of player agents.

Have you ever had a glass of champagne on an empty stomach at 10.15 in the morning? The world is at once full of golden excitement, but it's all faintly unreal. As I left St John's Wood Tube station ...

When I phone Graeme Pollock to ask for this interview, the conversation moves swiftly to Clive Rice's recent brush with malaria. Rice was in the Kruger National Park early in the new year and started ...

The greatest ODI player. Viv on Viv. Aboriginal cricket in Australia. Meet Mazhar Majeed. Sri Lanka's 1996 fairy tale. New England rising. Croft on Lillee.

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