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Born to run: the summer the World Cup came to be

A look back at favourite World Cups, beginning with the seminal one that heralded a new epoch in cricket

06-Sep-2023•Mark Nicholas

A to Z: what has changed since the last time the World Cup was in India

Fingerspinners have seen their role shrink, batting allrounders have all but vanished, and… what, no West Indies?

17-Aug-2023•Sidharth Monga

When Thala became Thalaivar: how MS Dhoni joined the pantheon of mythical Tamil heroes

Superstars in Chennai emerge from cinema or politics or both. Then came along a cricketer from Ranchi

24-Jul-2023•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Three men on an island: when Smudge, Trav and Marnus cut their teeth in England

A look back to the time Steven Smith, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne spent paying their dues in club cricket

08-Jun-2023•Scott Oliver

Dane van Niekerk: the fateful end of a storied career

The South Africa allrounder was one of the best in the game. She was all set for a World Cup where her team was expected to go far, but destiny had other plans

26-Apr-2023•Firdose Moonda

'I can't change my body structure. Everybody is not going to be slim'

How strict is too strict when it comes to fitness testing, and what challenges do large players deal with? Azam Khan, Rahkeem Cornwall, Sisanda Magala and Lizelle Lee tell us

17-Jan-2023•Firdose Moonda

How Avram Glazer of Manchester United finally got his finger in a cricket pie

The co-owner of the world's most famous football club tried and failed to buy an IPL franchise, but he's made up now

12-Jan-2023•Matt Roller

Summers with Greenidge and Marshall

A small Lancashire club went all starry-eyed and slack-jawed when a couple of West Indian invincibles turned out for them for two seasons in the 1990s

04-Nov-2022•Scott Oliver

You might be dropped if you fail in this Test. Does knowing that free you or make you miserable?

When players stuck in a rut go into what they suspect will be their final match, how does that knowledge make them react?

20-Sep-2022•Cameron Ponsonby

He smashed jaws, he thrashed sixes: Wasim Akram in the Birmingham league in 1999

Twenty-three years ago, caught in the turmoil of the match-fixing saga, the Pakistani legend turned out for Smethwick CC

08-Aug-2022•Scott Oliver

'You can't fully run away from where you come'

Jonathan Trott, Allan Lamb, Robin Smith and Michael Lumb on what it means to be a South African-born cricketer playing for England

29-Jul-2022•Daniel Gallan

Cricket's mothers have it better now than ever (but not all of them)

Female players who chose to have children effectively had to give up their playing careers. That is changing, but there's still a long way to go

08-Mar-2022•Annesha Ghosh

Amelia Kerr: 'If my family didn't get involved, I would still be suffering now'

The New Zealand allrounder talks about how her mental-health break made her appreciate the value of sharing your problems with your loved ones

28-Feb-2022•Valkerie Baynes

Fast times with Shabnim Ismail

From playing in the streets with boys to becoming a speed demon feared by batters across the world: here's the South Africa bowler's story

17-Feb-2022•Firdose Moonda

The future is tall

The great batters have historically been on the shorter side. T20 is changing that. Here is why

02-Feb-2022•Tim Wigmore

Have sweet spots on bats really got bigger?

Batmaking trends have changed greatly in the last two decades, but perhaps not as much as batting trends

15-Dec-2021•Varun Shetty

One small Lancashire club, two Aussie giants

About 30 years ago, Mark Taylor and Matthew Hayden, legends in the making, spent a summer each as the overseas pro at an English club

09-Dec-2021•Scott Oliver

When Andre Russell shook up an English spa town with his big hits and fierce strikes

Before he became Dre Russ, the Jamaican spent a season in Worcestershire that the locals still talk about

04-Nov-2021•Scott Oliver

The ACE programme is helping Black players stay in love with the game in England

One year on, Ebony Rainford-Brent's project has made a lot of progress, but there are still several barriers to break down

30-Oct-2021•Valkerie Baynes

Remember the game: the last six balls of the 2016 T20 World Cup relived

An iconic final over and an iconic piece of commentary. Carlos Brathwaite, Ian Bishop and Samuel Badree look back at the four sixes and the rest

22-Oct-2021•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

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