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Malinga was ridiculously penetrative at the death, of course. In that phase in IPL matches, for instance, he took 90 wickets ...
Over a 15-year career and counting, Russell has hit a six every 7.29 balls. No other player has taken under eight balls per ...
It's Viv Richards by a mile, according to our jury. Martin Crowe doffs his cap to the King, four writers salute the best of the rest, and the results in full Zaheer Abbas, Ajit Agarkar, Russel Arnold, ...
by Deivarayan Muthu If Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine are first-generation T20 legends from Trinidad and ...
What's the best thing about weekend amateur cricket? Pulling into the cool of a stone-flagged country pub at noon on a hot day, knowing you have plenty of time before the game starts. Who would you ...
Yes, sir, rocket-powered scoring was one of the features of Cricket Max, a format devised by the late Martin Crowe, with some help from his brother Jeff. Max rewarded traditional hitting in the V, ...
In cricket, as in life, it's important to draw boundaries - put up walls, as it were, should the situation demand it. Matches definitely demand it, to keep non-paying spectators out of the ground. But ...
At Headingley in 1984, Malcolm Marshall summed up the fierce and terrible beauty of one of the greatest teams of them all The most terrible thing I ever saw on a cricket field took place during the ...
While Daren Sammy's men had to prove they deserved the glory, Eoin Morgan's men had to embrace their failure so they could learn to win ...
Some elementary questions are the hardest to answer. Like when Gueorgui, a Bulgarian-American friend, asked: "Is cricket a team game? Or individual?" I wish I could have explained the complexity ...