The Long Room

Can those hurried scrawls reveal the private workings of a professional player's mind?

There is much to admire in the rhythm and timing of a batsman's leave-alone, which at times seems to borrow from the quintessentially Iberian art of bullfighting

Sometimes recreational cricketers get a chance to face players of international-calibre, and to stand 22 yards from a pace storm

The careers of two present-day England players have been noticeably intertwined since their days in youth cricket

If you were a cricket fan born and raised in Bangalore in the '70s and '80s, chances are you did everything in your power to watch Gundappa Viswanath bat

For a number of Australian greats down the years, cricket has begun rather close to home

The sport is full of pauses that enhance the drama, just like in Harold Pinter's plays

When you watched him bat, there was a sense that you were witnessing the creation of something beautiful yet not inaccessible

How a fan came to write the story of the Pakistani great's life

A one-time cricketer gets into whites again, and lives to tell the tale

Gum-chewing, ball-thwacking, awe-inspiring superstar Viv Richards is sixty today

As an ordinary person you don't get to see the workings of the home of cricket. Not unless you sign up as an archery volunteer for the Olympics

What was it about them that made them the team to follow for an Indian boy growing up 30-odd years ago?

What if the greatest batsman of them all had faced the finest legspinner ever?

Don't give up the game just because your joints are creaking. Take inspiration from these tales of a cricket-mad community

John Arlott wasn't just the voice of cricket. He was a source of comfort and hope to two cricketers who felt themselves alone against the cricket establishment

There's nothing more exciting in cricket than watching a quick man tear in with a batsman in his sights

What happens when a team of international vets faces off against Sheffield's finest club cricketers for charity?

The Test match-watching experience has changed over the years - the players' faces are obscured, the grounds are more coldly impersonal - but the buzz of a big game remains

A fan makes a long-anticipated pilgrimage to the home of cricket