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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Marvellous Mr Maxwell. Reverse swing in England. Australia's cricket statues. An all-time fielders' XI. Javagal Srinath. Cricketing relatives. Ranatunga's spats ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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*, ...