Backyard / street cricket

A peek into street cricket in the UAE

Paul Radley on Friday cricket that is a ritual for the masses in the UAE

08-Jul-2017

Ben Wheeler, from the backyard to the big stage

Ben Wheeler, the 23-year old New Zealand fast bowler, speaks to Mark Geenty at stuff.co.nz about how backyard battles with his two brothers helped him on his path to becoming an international cricketer

26-Jul-2015

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In his piece for the Guardian's Spin, John Ashdown draws on his childhood memories and mulls on how the seemingly rigid rules of cricket can be warped - with a little creativity - to allow its practitioners a quick game of cricket in unlikely condi

28-Jan-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

The many crickets of an Indian boyhood

Growing up in India, you play a number of varieties of the game, each contributing to the development of certain skills

27-Jan-2015•Sankaran Krishna

The nature v nurture debate in cricket

In an article for Aeon magazine, David Papineau explores the idea of nature v nurture in cricket by comparing it with other sports

16-Sep-2014•ESPNcricinfo staff

Losing to India

An Englishman discovers cricket fervour in India, and realises he can't quite win a game against Indians back home either

25-Jul-2014•Nicholas Hogg

Bat up, Cuba

Scyld Berry's column in the Telegraph explains how a charity has been supplying bats, stumps, helmets and more to fuel Cuba's passion for cricket

09-Apr-2014

Corey Anderson thrives on confidence

Self-belief plays a big part of Corey Anderson stunning rise from backyard cricket to national hero, as he reveals in an interview with Alan Perrott for the New Zealand Herald

01-Feb-2014

A victory for hard work and desire

07-Jan-2014•ESPNcricinfo staff

The kid who finally had to grow up

To this fan, Sachin Tendulkar is a kid who managed to extend his childhood beyond its definition

13-Oct-2013•Rajan Thambehalli

The most cricketous area in the world

The tour kicks off in Mumbai, with a visit to the maidans, where all of cricket is displayed in a microcosm

10-Oct-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Sachin, Yuvraj and Sehwag as siblings

Residents of a village in Tamil Nadu have reflected their passion for cricket and WWE by naming their children after their favourite players and wrestlers

28-Aug-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Once upon a red-clay wicket

Learning the virtues of pitching it on a good length is easy when you end up breaking light fixtures every time you don't

20-Aug-2013•Krishna Kumar

Candid camera: losing my head

In the last year (ie, the 12th grade) of my high school years, a good friend of mine decided to put together a photographic record of our class' escapades

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Bullseye

I was really fortunate to be asked to go to the 2011 World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. I was away from home for almost seven weeks

25-Feb-2013•Philip Brown

Braving the Indian summer

Cricket fans not from the subcontinent come to realize - eventually - that cricket is most certainly not the summer game in the Indian subcontinent

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The opportunity in a Pakistan Premier League

Rumours of the death of Pakistan cricket, it seems, have been greatly exaggerated. If flowers can bloom in the desert, Pakistan cricket can thrive without the security glare of home internationals

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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