Can cricket shrink to save itself?
Test cricket has had a fabulous year, and despite its flaws, cricket is growing, but the calendar is a cause for concern
Sambit Bal
January 2025
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Cricket will go where the fans take it, and that's all right
We're often alarmed at changes in the sport and the direction it seems to be headed in, but maybe the fear is unfounded
Sambit Bal
December 2023
Growing up with Murali
Ten years after he retired, a reflection on what Muttiah Muralitharan has meant - and means - to a nation
Andrew Fidel Fernando
August 2020
The ugly Australian: the evolution of a cricket species
How did Australian cricket come to be synonymous with hostility, gamesmanship and verbal abuse? A year on from Sandpapergate, we explore a thorny subject
Jarrod Kimber
April 2019
Greigy, Robbo, and me
Tall and friendly, Tony Greig was a hero, ready-minted, for Sussex, England and the world in the late '60s and '70s
Gavaskar: two Thursdays
Twice on a tour of Australia, Sunny was out bowled for zero
Christian Ryan
December 2018
Still loving Sachin
It has been five years since Tendulkar left the stage, and India's obsession with him makes a little more sense
The Imran Khans I've known
Cricketer who turned prime minister? There's more to him than just those two avatars
What do Bodyline and Sandpapergate have in common?
Both crises involve Australia, but here are five other things connecting them
Where would South Africa be if Kallis hadn't played the way he did?
Remembering the man who made modern South African success possible
Tom Eaton
February 2018