Moeen Ali is an unlikely recipient of death threats. He is an unlikely victim of booing, too. And of a hit-and-run driver seemingly determined to kill him. An elegant batsman and a soft-spoken man ...

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 ...

There has been a wider explosion of the carrom ball too, in the decade and a half since Ajantha Mendis popularised it, and every second squad in every T20 league seems to include someone who bowls it.

In the first of a series on cricket in fiction, a look at Chinaman, in which the game isn't so much plot driver as plinth There is more cricket fiction than is probably thought to exist. Screeds of it ...

The top 50: 1-10 | 11-20 | 21-30 | 31-40 | 41-50 No. 21 Kim Hughes: 100 not out Australia v West Indies, Melbourne, 1981 Boxing Day, 1981. Kim Hughes had not held a bat in a week, family having taken ...

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 ...

On Carnival Tuesday, the climax of the season of festivities in Trinidad and Tobago, Asami Nagakiya was murdered; her body, found on Ash Wednesday, was still clad in her costume. Asami, a petite ...

He kept his cool to create Test cricket's most exciting moment. And Joe Solomon, now 86, is still cool Joe Solomon waits. He stands at backward square-leg, closer in than usual. Everyone is closer ...

The game turfed Ian Meckiff out in his prime. More than 50 years on, he still doesn't have a bad word to say about it Some cricketers are lucky enough to leave the game on their own terms. Others get ...

The first time M Kandeepan visited the emigration centre in his city in 1993, the man in combat gear behind the desk asked why he wanted to leave. "I want to go and play cricket." "Play cricket where?

If you're a fan of West Indian cricket, you're likely to fall in love with the region's literature It was the last day of the last match between Trinidad and Jamaica. Gerry Gomez and Len Harbin were ...