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AUS-WA vs IND-WA (1)

ZIM vs NZ (1)

Men's Hundred (2)

IRE-W vs PAK-W (1)

Women's Hundred (2)

One-Day Cup (6)

U19 Tri Series (ZIM) (1)

Australia A Women

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Wordplay

Pause - it's good for you

Pause - it's good for you

Break has several meanings in cricket, but today the predominant usage is to do with money-making

01-Jun-2017•Simon Barnes

What branding does to sport

What branding does to sport

Cricket is much more than just a product to be packaged and sold by advertisers, right?

01-May-2017•Simon Barnes

The beguilers

The beguilers

What makes us call a player a genius?

03-Apr-2017•Simon Barnes

When the going is always tough

When the going is always tough

In professional sport, pressure is not only inevitable but also welcome

02-Mar-2017•Simon Barnes

Look sharp

Look sharp

If you have focus, you can achieve anything - or so they say

02-Feb-2017•Simon Barnes

Take me for example

Take me for example

Why do we expect sportspersons to be role models?

02-Jan-2017•Simon Barnes

The others

The others

Not all the terms used in cricket come from the English language

01-Dec-2016•Simon Barnes

Not a problem

Not a problem

The difficulties modern players face are often described as being "issues". That's not always a bad thing

02-Nov-2016•Simon Barnes

Go pro

Go pro

A word that was once used to describe a lower class of player now stands for a job reasonably done

03-Oct-2016•Simon Barnes

Is this boring you?

Is this boring you?

What is the purpose of sport: to entertain or to pursue excellence?

01-Sep-2016•Simon Barnes

Built by sport, revealed by sport

Built by sport, revealed by sport

How does the word character apply? First you played to develop it, now you develop it to play

01-Aug-2016•Simon Barnes

Process

Process

A contemporary word that is neither sound nor fury, signifying less than nothing

01-Nov-2014•Jarrod Kimber

Gently down the stream

Gently down the stream

The Oxford has over a dozen entries for drift. It could have been invented for cricket

02-Oct-2014•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Dreadheads

Dreadheads

Cricket fans live with the feeling because they know fandom is diluted without it

03-Sep-2014•Soumya Bhattacharya

The inevitables

The inevitables

A series in which writers explore the game through a word. First up: momentum

02-Aug-2014•Malcolm Knox

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