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by Deivarayan Muthu If Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine are first-generation T20 legends from Trinidad and ...
What's the best thing about weekend amateur cricket? Pulling into the cool of a stone-flagged country pub at noon on a hot day, knowing you have plenty of time before the game starts. Who would you ...
Yes, sir, rocket-powered scoring was one of the features of Cricket Max, a format devised by the late Martin Crowe, with some help from his brother Jeff. Max rewarded traditional hitting in the V, ...
In cricket, as in life, it's important to draw boundaries - put up walls, as it were, should the situation demand it. Matches definitely demand it, to keep non-paying spectators out of the ground. But ...
While Daren Sammy's men had to prove they deserved the glory, Eoin Morgan's men had to embrace their failure so they could learn to win ...
Some elementary questions are the hardest to answer. Like when Gueorgui, a Bulgarian-American friend, asked: "Is cricket a team game? Or individual?" I wish I could have explained the complexity ...
Bad boy WG Grace is easy to love but good boy WG Grace (and the accompanying legend) is hard to bear Everyone knows WG Grace. He isn't synonymous with cricket; he's been in a partnership with it since ...
It was a throwaway remark from Brendon McCullum, made when he was giving a Sky Sports "Masterclass" to UK viewers, but as with Virender Sehwag's irreducible and immortal "see ball, hit ball", it is a ...
Stuart Broad was born in England but made in Australia. His win-at-most-costs approach has ensured a complicated relationship with both countries. In Australia, during the 2013-14 Ashes, he was the ...
The spinmeister Shane Warne "He was hitting the same ball through cover or whipping it through midwicket" What I remember about that Test match is that Steve Waugh and a few others got a bit carried ...
There is a connection between Hamilton Masakadza and the boy holding a piece of firewood. More than two decades ago in this neighbourhood, Masakadza was handed a foreign object and taught the game ...