Cricket's glory days in Nova Scotia

Oct 28, 2012: The sport has been played for over two centuries in the Atlantic Canada province, but is only now getting national recognition

How to seduce Newfoundlanders into liking cricket

Oct 13, 2012: You can start by getting a Hollywood movie about the game shot there

Northern uproar

Sep 15, 2012: Cricket in Newfoundland & Labrador is coming along in leaps and bounds. Ask Quebec if you doubt it

At home with the archers

Aug 4, 2012: Was it worth having Olympic athletes walking all over the sacred turf of Lord's a fortnight before the ground's biggest cricket event of the year? The jury's still out

Behind the scenes at Lord's

Feb 26, 2012: As an ordinary person you don't get to see the workings of the home of cricket. Not unless you sign up as an archery volunteer for the Olympics

The Canadian batman

Feb 12, 2012: You may not get many homegrown cricketers in Canada but you can get a homegrown bat

An ice way to keep cricketing

Dec 10, 2011: When winter sets in in Newfoundland, there's no need to despair; there's another sport you can take to

The cricket club that got football's heaviest whipping

Nov 19, 2011: Over a century and a quarter ago, a Scottish football side ended up on the wrong side of a 36-0 scoreline. Only, they were actually a cricket team

It's all coming up roses

Oct 23, 2011: The first full Newfoundland summer of hardball cricket in decades has just finished, and the successes on and off the field have been impressive

Égalité, fraternité, pirate

Oct 1, 2011: A team in Quebec makes the United Nations look like an exclusive club

We've got airmail

Sep 18, 2011: Cricket has repeatedly played cameos in Newfoundland history. This time it's via the lives of an Italian aviator and an English stamp collector

Cricket in the land of murderous flies

Sep 3, 2011: Can the game be played in cold Labrador? Our palaeontologist reporter investigates

At the Olympics, with plastic bats

Aug 20, 2011: So you think cricket featured in the Olympics just the once? In a certain Shropshire town's version of the event it's been the star of the show for 125 years now

A plan of green fables

Aug 14, 2011: In their quest to find a new cricket venue, Newfoundland could learn a few lessons from Prince Edward Island, which got community support to develop their ground and now hope to use it to promote the region's heritage and cross-cultural integration

Hoping for a warmer future in icy climes

Jul 30, 2011: Cricket is currently an immigrant sport in New Brunswick, but its caretakers hope that with local kids taking up the sport, it will slowly turn mainstream

Two inches off Mr Burbridge's nose

Jul 9, 2011: In which we go back over a century to the fiendish excitements of Newfoundland cricket in its heyday

The 187-year wait

Jun 26, 2011: Nearly two centuries worth of emptiness was reversed in a weekend for Newfoundland and Labrador. World Cup in another four years?

Return to the rock

Jun 12, 2011: Summer's here. Time to take up the story of cricket in Newfoundland again

Searching for the yorker

Apr 30, 2011: Did the term for cricket's most exciting delivery originate from that of the county with the similar name? Or was it derived from slang?

It happened in '85

Apr 8, 2011: As the 2011 season gets underway, a county cricket watcher recalls his first year travelling the Sunday League grounds of 1980s Britain with a press pass-wielding father

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