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Of autograph hunting blues and second chances

Much like cricket, autograph-hunting is a sport. A fan arms himself with a pen and paper, two decades apart

03-Mar-2017•Prakul Chandra

An American discovers cricket

How a lover of many sports from the USA came to be a fan of cricket as well

06-Jul-2016•Tim Lowell

Fans to take to the field ahead of England-Pakistan series

A clash of fans of the friendly kind is all set to take place at Edgbaston

22-Jun-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Feasting, grooving, dancing at Chepauk

In the '70s, home-cooked South Indian lunches and Hindi film music contributed to the experience of a Test match day in Madras

24-Apr-2016•Sankaran Krishna

England lost? No worries

Can a lifelong supporter of written-off teams handle seismic victories?

04-Apr-2016•Jonathan Wilson

When is a poor decision a masterstroke?

In sport, luck plays a big role in determining whether a tactical move on the field will pay off or not

26-Feb-2016•Sankaran Krishna

The problem with the PSL

The format hardly makes for compelling cricket, and the fact that people expect the league to bring top-level cricket back to Pakistan is an unnecessary burden

21-Feb-2016•Danyal Rasool

Pakistan cricket's renaissance moment

The Pakistan Super League, apart from giving the country's domestic game a shot in the arm, is making a nation feel good about itself again

14-Feb-2016•Kamran Abbasi

Why do remorselessly excellent players get faint praise?

In cricket as in life, we favour sharp drama and narratives of redemption, doing the Stewarts and the Gooches of the world a disservice

13-Feb-2016•Jonathan Wilson

FFS: a Scotsman's Ashes lament

The shared pain of watching the Edgbaston Test of 2005

05-Feb-2016•Samir Chopra

Could T20 help bring fans to Test cricket?

Not really. The chances are higher of traffic the other way

18-Jan-2016•Michael Jeh

The women in my cricket-watching life

Cricket fans may be predominantly male, but there are plenty of women about as well

12-Jan-2016•Samir Chopra

A lament for Pakistan's VCR age

Remembering Pakistan Sports in Karachi, a one-time haven for cricket nostalgists

17-Dec-2015•Ahmer Naqvi

Just win overseas, India

Why the team's fans have developed an appetite for the kind of results their team has historically been unable to deliver

16-Dec-2015•Samir Chopra

The day I played against KP

As Big Bash clubs gear up for their summer of slather and whack, a Melbourne journalist recalls his brush with fame at the start of last year's T20 season

09-Dec-2015•Tom Morris

What does the way we criticise cricketers say about us?

In India, it is common for followers to heap abuse on players when they disappoint expectations. It paints a damning picture of the so-called fans of the game

20-Nov-2015•Kartikeya Date

Why I didn't watch the All-Stars

Overpriced tickets and mediocre cricket: fans in the US deserve better. How about proper international matches?

18-Nov-2015•Samir Chopra

My evening on Bangladesh's most storied cricket pitch

A cricket journalist plays at the Mirpur Test ground and comes away with a renewed sense of what the game at the highest level involves

10-Nov-2015•Mohammad Isam

Let me tell you about Sachin, my son

An Indian-American dad gets all excited at the prospect of watching Tendulkar in the flesh

05-Nov-2015•Amar Shah

An agony only cricket can create

No other game makes you crave updates, no matter how trivial, when you are denied live coverage

05-Nov-2015•Jonathan Wilson

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