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From catharsis to conflict, and other stories

Extreme pitches aside, the year's red-ball contests were fierce, and home advantage wasn't as marked as before

From catharsis to conflict, and other stories

Extreme pitches aside, the year's red-ball contests were fierce, and home advantage wasn't as marked as before

'T20 drains you mentally because every ball is an event'

Aaron Finch and Ambati Rayudu pick apart the intricacies of batting and captaincy in the shortest format.

The story of Robin Smith and the Judge

The former England batter was a beautiful man and a brilliant cricketer who took on the best and most threatening in the world and often won

Hanging in the balance

How do cricketers find equilibrium?

Aakash Chopra: 'As a commentator, you are reacting. You're being honest but your opinion can be wrong'

The former India batter delves into the challenges of dealing with trolls and with players unhappy at being criticised

Feature

The omnishambles Ashes: how England broke on the Covid tour of 2021-22

Nov 17, 2025: Tours to Australia are never easy, but Covid restrictions made the series that much harder for Joe Root's England side

Vithushan Ehantharajah
Talking Cricket

'I wish someone had told me to enjoy my cricket and not worry about selection'

Oct 31, 2025: A domestic stalwart, briefly a Test player and now a sought-after broadcaster, Abhinav Mukund talks about the many twists in his career

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Photo feature

Net flicks and drill

Oct 15, 2025: A behind-the-screens look at where cricketers are made

Ekanth
Talking Cricket

Ian Bishop on working as a commentator: 'If I don't research every player, I feel my work is unfinished'

Oct 8, 2025: The former West Indies fast bowler talks about what goes into calling the game for viewers

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Interviews

Jayden Seales: 'I want to build my name, I want to build a legacy, I want to be No. 1 in Test cricket'

Oct 2, 2025: The young West Indies fast bowler talks about his best spells, what he's learnt from Curtly Ambrose, and why he sometimes picks fights

Interview by Nagraj Gollapudi
Talking Cricket

Jemimah Rodrigues is at 80%. The last 20 is nearly here

Sep 13, 2025: A young gun but a veteran at 25, and on the brink of her first ODI World Cup, the India batter talks us through her story

Interview by Vishal Dikshit
Talking Cricket

Aaron Finch: 'In T20, one ball can change the game. It's about taking the emotion out of it'

Sep 1, 2025: The former Australia captain talks about his T20 career, the success he had with Melbourne Renegades, and why it wasn't the same in the IPL

Interview by Matt Roller
Feature

Deadly down under: Derek Underwood's World Series Cricket chapter

Aug 29, 2025: When the England spinner and some of his Kent team-mates signed for Kerry Packer's breakaway enterprise in the '70s, it nearly broke the county apart

Mark Peel
Interviews

Colin Munro: 'If you score, you score. If you don't, it's not the end of the world'

Aug 28, 2025: The Trinbago Knight Riders opener talks about his return to the franchise, freeing himself from price-tag pressure, and the future of T20 freelancers

Interview by Deivarayan Muthu
Photo feature

Save the last laugh

Aug 27, 2025: Cricket gives you plenty of reasons to smile

Deepti Unni
Writers
  • Vithushan Ehantharajah
    Jacob Bethell: Can England's star of the future be their saviour of the now? Astonishing debut century lived up to the hype, but England need even more from him to atone for other failings
  • Alagappan Muthu
    Rohit and Kohli take centre stage before receding to the background Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli do what was expected of them and more, and will now disappear from view as the focus turns to T20Is again
  • Osman Samiuddin
    A part but apart: why Usman Khawaja was an Aussie cricketer like no other His career felt distinctly different to those of other players in his side
  • S Rajesh
    A year in fast-forward: shorter games, quicker results, Starc contrasts A stats overview of 2025, when breakneck speed was the default
  • Mohammad Isam
    BPL round-up: Shanto's form, Ripon's Super Over heroics, and familiar controversies All the highlights from the first week of the 2025-26 season of the Bangladesh Premier League
  • Steven Lynch
    What's the highest Test partnership between people who were born on the same day? And how many Test series have featured two or more Tests that finished in two days?
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