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Denis Compton and David Beckham have football in common and Beckham and Kevin Pietersen have pop star wives in common but what connects the three is Brylcreem, the perennial British stamp of style and stardom

It must be a legspinner thing, but a year after a play about Shane Warne, Sussex have announced a one-man theatrical extravaganza about their 2003 County Championship success called Mushy Ate My Credit Card

England spinner Monty Panesar may not be the world’s best fielder - he was called Monty Python for his comical attempts – but he 'll have to keep his flaps and fumbles to a minimum for at least a few moments next month - when he'll be

If you enjoyed Rudi Koertzen’s voice booming around the Wanderers at the start of the IPL final asking spectators “Bullring are you ready

Amid rumours that they are about to relocate their headquarters from Dubai to Nigeria, the International Cricket Council has been forced to issue a warning about hoax emailers, after a wave of spam messages, purporting to have originated from the

Irfan Pathan may have receded to the fringes of Indian cricket but if he’s moping about missing out on the Champions Trophy, his mood has just got better: His brother Yusuf, who has made the trip to South Africa, gave him a Ford SUV for the Eid

Imagine not taking the call, when Sachin Tendulkar is on the other end of the line

As if the jeers at Trent Bridge on Thursday weren't enough, further evidence of Andrew Strauss's slide from Test hero to one-day villain was evident in a WH Smith advertisement carried in the national newspapers

Michael Vaughan has joined the Test Match Special and will make his first regular appearances during England’s tour of South Africa which starts in November

Andrew Flintoff’s new life as a freelance cricketer could begin with a maiden stint in the commentary box during the Champions League Twenty20 tournament that gets underway in India on October 8, when Somerset and Sussex will be representing

Sourav Ganguly is the Prince of Kolkata but he could be looking elsewhere for a way to become the Badshah of the BCCI

What a difference a year can make

He may have chosen cricket as a career but Pakistan captain Younis Khan is lending his weight to other sports too

This is one Test that Mahendra Singh Dhoni hasn't yet mastered

The West Indies squad arrived in Johannesburg on Monday morning for the Champions Trophy

Cricket sponsorship took a step forward with the unveiling of the world’s first digital trophy in Colombo on Monday

Call it the rub of the 'green'