Christian Ryan

Twice on a tour of Australia, Sunny was out bowled for zero

Twelve years ago, Abdul Qadir, still good enough to turn out for Pakistan, spent a summer playing club cricket in Melbourne. The few who saw him remember it like it was yesterday

The wind in the WACA and other Perth phenomena

Chandra and Qadir, Gower and Viv - a case for the transformative power of the miniature

What if there was an office he could go to, shut the door, do the thing that was inside him and no one ever had to see it?

Short, slight, fast, skiddy, moves it sideways, in-drifts it, and gets good bounce. And the last Australia probably saw of him was two one-over spells

Chatara to Dhawan: six balls, no runs, six paragraphs. There's a certain poetry about the maiden over

Or how England can take a simple idea and stretch it till it makes no sense at all

It's natural that cricket's obsessives should relish the sparkle of one team's play this World Cup

The long-lasting memory of a young batsman we have never seen before is of that one brilliant shot announcing his arrival

On the first morning of the World Cup: a most engrossing 14 runs

Coloured clothes, black sightscreens, two white balls: the game of cricket looked so different in 1992

How much can moments captured in still frames tell you about the people in them? More than you can imagine

On his day, Gary Gilmour could change the game with bat or ball, but a debilitating foot injury, the Packer era and an offhand attitude to fitness meant he played his last Test at 25

When you make 98 from No. 11 on debut, it is your premature fate to never just be another name on a teamsheet

He looks like one of Australia's top six batsmen, doesn't make the necessary runs in first-class cricket, briefly dazzles in Tests, goes away, then comes back

Insiders consider Kevin Pietersen's lack of "teamliness" his biggest flaw but spectators love to watch him play. So who matters more?

Watching and hearing a six hit at a ground is a visceral experience, even in an age when sixes are the norm, not the exception

Bill Lawry, no stranger, returns, with his gift to articulate precisely what the viewer is thinking

What makes a special cricket place special? At Adelaide Oval, part of it is that going to the cricket is about not having to watch the cricket