Indian fans knew little about the internal issues dogging Australia on their 1979 tour but, although they were to succumb over the course of a long, draining series, the likes of Kim Hughes and Allan Border left their mark

Why do I write about cricket? It is because I'm infected by a deep nostalgia, an incurable homesickness; and sometimes because it seems that to stop writing about cricket would be to acknowledge that one part of my life is over and I can never go 'home'

I am truly grateful that there exists such marvelous diversity in the same act, providing the cricket fan with many hours of viewing pleasure

The Jacques Kallis versus Garfield Sobers comparison and evaluation is guaranteed to draw sharply contrasting reactions from most cricket fans

One of the curious ironies of modern cricket is that just as our means of the visual inspection of the game, its players and their skills have grown ever more sophisticated

Seemingly a giant of a man, literally and figuratively, he was the captain of a team central to the Indian team's understanding of itself in the cricket world

One recurring fantasy of the Indian cricket fan is to speculate about a combined India-Pakistan team

I'd like to recount two ways in which I've turned to cricket to see if there was a resonance of interest to me with significant numbers in my life

Tristan Lavalette's piece on cricket in Serbia reminded me once again, that cricket is not yet a truly global sport, but it has great potential to become one

The bio on the right hand side of this page has indicated for some time that I have been writing a book on 'the changing face of modern cricket'

The US-based cricket fan reacts with an emotion that is a mix of pleasure, relief, and sometimes, a giddy determination to make the most of it

The US launch of a professional T20 league reminds me of another, more humble US-based T20 competition I took part in some 25 years ago

A cricket field brings together twenty-two players, encapsulating diversity that goes beyond the merely physical: class, religion, language

When the first ICC World Twenty20 kicked off, I paid little attention

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

By all accounts, Rahul and Parnell did what a pair of young men might do in a big city once the working day is done

Mahela Jayawardene is a good batsman and comes across as a thoughtful, astute cricketer in most of his public pronouncements

In high school, playing hooky to play or watch cricket was a common pastime

As a cricket fan of long standing, I have had the chance to assess many changes in the game

Kevin Pietersen's retirement from international ODI and Twenty20 cricket and the influence of the IPL on modern cricket