He had the batting skills and the legspin variations that are greatly valued in the shortest format today P erhaps it isn't ...

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 ...

Waipawa lies in deepest, darkest Hawke's Bay, a 45-minute drive south of Napier, first-class cricket's most easterly outpost. The journey takes you through dusty, dry farmland and rolling hills of ...

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*, ...

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 ...

Batting is about death. And life of course. It's all about how useful - how good - a life you lead before you die. You are surrounded by pitfalls and bayed about by enemies, but the good person will ...

All things being equal, you would sooner watch a century from Brian Lara than from Geoffrey Boycott. You'd sooner watch a session of Kevin Pietersen in his pomp than Alastair Cook in his. And maybe ...

I knew this wasn't going to be pretty. It wasn't, particularly. First ball I bowled to him - my first ball in Test cricket - a half-volley on leg stump: clipped, timed nicely, towards Craig Cumming at ...

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