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 ...

May 2017 homepage IPL tales. Afghans in Austria. Last-wicket stands. Warm-up matches. The deadly Andy Roberts. Cricket songs. Branding in sports ...

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 ...

January 2016 homepage VVS, Lara, Holding, Botham and the rest. The magnetic, the princely, the joyous, the mighty: the greatest Test performances of the last 50 years ...

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 ...

Where was cricket first played in India? Which village match was interrupted by an air raid? Cricketing excavations from Gujarat and Kent When I was a boy my parents told me the first cricket match I ...

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 ...