Test cricket has had a fabulous year, and despite its flaws, cricket is growing, but the calendar is a cause for concern ...

Shardul Thakur, Cheteshwar Pujara, Vikram Rathour and others talk about the Brisbane classic, one of the all-time great Tests India's win in the 2021 Gabba Test against Australia, played in the middle ...

A street in Calcutta. (Though it could be any city in the region.) Late 1980s. Babu has the bat. Raju has the ball. A run-up of about 12 steps - everyone bowled a shade of fast, like they did ...

Rather than go for the greatest delivery, I am going for the one that made the most impact on a young fan. These things are entirely subjective, though Shane Warne had a good crack at contradicting ...

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 ...

From the north-east of Australia down to the south of India, from the '60s to the '90s, our jurors pick their favourites Queensland Bulls 1994-95 - 2001-02: five Sheffield Shield and Pura Cup ...

There is a photo in the Buttler family scrapbook from 1999. The World Cup trophy - which no England cricketer has held aloft in celebration - is centre stage. To the left of it is Jos, aged eight, in ...

When Sir Donald Bradman left us for the cricket ground in the sky in 2001, I was absolutely humbled to be asked at his memorial service… My time for the song arrived. The television crew directed me ...

No. 2 Ian Botham: 50 and 149 not out; 6 for 95 and 1 for 14 England v Australia, Headingley, 1981 Ian Botham's confidence was low and his mood unpredictable when England arrived for the third Test at ...

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 ...

History would be kind to him, Winston Churchill thought: he intended writing it himself. Cricket captains have often inclined to the same opinion, setting out to tell the stories of their series from ...