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by Deivarayan Muthu If Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine are first-generation T20 legends from Trinidad and ...
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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 ...
Seam movement is the biggest challenge for batters. They get just under half a second from release to interception. You can imagine the jeopardy caused if the ball also changes direction significantly ...
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 ...
The art of catching the cricket ball after it has taken the outside edge is a special gift. Some do it well, some not so well, and then there are the gifted few who do it with what appears to be ...
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 ...
A friend recently asked me what it was that had made me left-wing. "Cricket," I replied. "Cricket made you a socialist?" said my friend. "Those aren't words you'll hear too often." I suspect they aren ...
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 ...
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 ...