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 ...

No. 3 Michael Holding: 8 for 92 and 6 for 57 England v West Indies, The Oval, 1976 It was a searing summer. The weather was hot and so was the West Indies bowling. This was the summer of grovel, and ...

If you're a fan of West Indian cricket, you're likely to fall in love with the region's literature It was the last day of the last match between Trinidad and Jamaica. Gerry Gomez and Len Harbin were ...

The idea of harnessing video resources to assist umpires has been around for many years, and would often be raised whenever an umpiring blunder changed the course of a Test. In 1974 the Test umpire ...

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 ...

One of the very first cricket books I was ever given, on the occasion of my tenth birthday, was a slim black paperback called Great Australian Cricket Pictures (1975). When I retrieve it from the ...

Moeen Ali is an unlikely recipient of death threats. He is an unlikely victim of booing, too. And of a hit-and-run driver seemingly determined to kill him. An elegant batsman and a soft-spoken man ...

You don't take Viv Richards down. I've seen him hit by a bumper and the ball slide off him like a sponge thrown at granite. I've seen him bowled for a duck and still swagger off the pitch. In the mind ...

There is no blinding revelation in the story of Kane Williamson's ascendancy. There is no Disney storyline of a boy from Tauranga fighting the odds on his way to the top. There are no mean streets ...

What began as a technical tweak for one Aussie batsman is now a nationwide fad. And not everyone is impressed For the first 128 years of Australia's Test history, there was one constant in a boundless ...

Srinivasan's kingdom and Dhoni's adopted home is at the centre of cricket's universe, but what has that meant for the fabric of the game in the city? Have you ever seen Shahrukh Khan bat?" a senior ...

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 ...