South Africa, now settled as a top-level team, and with a strong domestic scene supporting the Test environment, finished ...

RK Narayan's beloved novel may be classified as children's cricket fiction, but it is not limited by its genre Swami and Friends, set in a small South Indian town during the final decades of the ...

How important is chemistry between openers? Justin Langer: Matty Hayden is one of my best friends. He is a bit like my brother. I remember Mark Taylor, when he went through that really tough run in ...

My cricket helmet has lasted 25 years but currently sits in a puddle at short leg in the backyard. It's rarely been hit, and really offers only cosmetic protection, but will soon be unusable. The ...

March 2017 homepage Remembering Martin Crowe. Collapses in the age of run gluts. Modern wicketkeepers. Brutish bouncers. Dubious distinctions. Why sport needs pressure. Cricket and the elements ...

In early 1987 my parents travelled to Melbourne from Sydney, where we lived, to hold a conference. I was seven years old and didn't really understand what the conference, at a hotel in Melbourne's ...

December 2015 homepage The transformation of Steven Smith. Cricket and safety. Profiling the Pathan brothers. South Africa's perception of apartheid. Saluting Kanhai. Hating to love Alec Stewart.

He kept his cool to create Test cricket's most exciting moment. And Joe Solomon, now 86, is still cool Joe Solomon waits. He stands at backward square-leg, closer in than usual. Everyone is closer ...

Every village cricket team in England has a Toby. That's not his real name, which these days is often several longitudinal degrees more exotic (what's Tamil for Toby?). But to achieve the more ...

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 ...

April 2015 homepage Misbah in the context of Pakistan. Cricket in the Kashmir Valley. The fall of the Netherlands. The IPL: blessing or curse? What the Test game can learn from Formula One. Cricket's ...

ODI #2839: South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, Australia in South Africa 3rd ODI, 9 Apr 2009 ...