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31 July 2024

  • Joe Root speaks to Gary Barwell before England’s Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston in 2021.

    The life of a cricket groundskeeper: ‘It’s hard – but I’ve seen the world’s best players’

    Gary Barwell, head of sports turf at Edgbaston, has seen his workload grow but is grateful to be kept off social media

24 July 2024

  • Chris Wright of Leicestershire

    ‘I’m not a drugs cheat, it’s proven’: Chris Wright raring to return after ban

    Leicestershire seamer feared career was over after ban that has prompted criticism of anti-doping regulations

17 July 2024

  • The 12-man Great Britain team – AKA the Devon and Somerset Wanderers – that won Olympic Gold in Paris in 1900.

    How Great Britain claimed Olympic cricket glory in Paris 124 years ago

    Classically English game has featured at the Olympics once, and British team will defend their title at Los Angeles 2028

10 July 2024

  • Young Afghan cricketer Ekil Latifi

    Afghanistan women’s cricket future again rests with wrangling of men

    Having fled their homeland due to the Taliban, players are again pleading for help from the ICC and beyond

3 July 2024

  • Heinrich Klaasen and Keshav Maharaj sit down after South Africa's final defeat

    South Africa’s World Cup agony was no choke, with hope for future glory

    The Proteas made their final a contest against India and there is no shame in losing after going toe to toe with a titan

26 June 2024

  • Carlos Brathwaite (right) celebrates after helping the West Indies win the T20 World Cup in 2016

    Carlos Brathwaite on the good and bad of 2016: ‘I fell out of love with the game’

    West Indies all-rounder’s T20 World Cup final heroics left him feeling listless but joy of playing eventually returned

19 June 2024

  • Rishabh Pant and Yuzvendra Chahal

    Return of Rishabh Pant prompts both relief and the guilty secret of fandom

    India’s remarkable talent was fortunate simply to survive his horror accident, but supporters are often guilty of wanting more

12 June 2024

  • USA fans show their support in the T20 Cricket World Cup match against Canada.

    What will be the legacy of Cricket World Cup’s New York adventure?

    If cricket in the US is headed anywhere, bet on it being towards becoming the home to another thriving franchise league

5 June 2024

  • India fans at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium.

    No grassroots but lots of scaffold: a peek inside New York’s cricket scene

    India and Pakistan – ‘the Super Bowl on steroids’ – clash in the T20 World Cup on Sunday, but most New Yorkers haven’t a clue

29 May 2024

  • A player from Long Island United Cricket Club in action at Eisenhower Park in New York.

    ‘Land of opportunity’: USA is cricket’s bold new frontier once again

    In the first of a series of special features, Andy Bull looks at how a sport buried by the American civil war is undergoing a revival

22 May 2024

  • The band United Colours of Sound pose with players John Crawley and Chris Adams at the launch of the Twenty20 Cup in 2003

    Happy 21st birthday T20: from silly photoshoot to cricket’s apex format

    Within two decades T20 has usurped the entire structure of the sport with the Olympics next on the horizon

15 May 2024

  • Nasser Hussain and Andrew Strauss after England had won the first Test match between England and New Zealand in May 2004.

    Revisiting England’s overshadowed summer of perfection, 20 years on

    Seven wins from seven Tests and a recasting of the XI set the team on its path to Ashes glory 12 months later

8 May 2024

  • Walking cricket being played by a group of over 50s men at Three Hills Sport Centre in Folkestone.

    ‘New lease of life’: how walking cricket is giving the over-50s a taste of Bazball

    Older people are reconnecting with their inner child by taking up the bat again and remembering how fun the sport can be

1 May 2024

  • Ryan Patel walks with his arm around Cameron Steel at the Kia Oval

    Cameron Steel takes roundabout route into the limelight with Surrey

    All-rounder has switched specialisms and counties over the years but is now the country’s leading wicket taker and has England ambitions

24 April 2024

  • Zak Crawley hits Pat Cummins of Australia for four off the first ball of the Ashes last year.

    Head-to-head stats highlight why Test cricket is greatest sporting format

    Every match comprises hundreds of contests between batter and bowler. If statistics are your thing, it’s mesmerising

17 April 2024

  • Old copies of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack at a second-hand book stall

    Behind the scenes at Wisden: 161 years old and still going strong

    The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack remains a bestseller and headline-grabber, because it acts as the conscience of cricket

10 April 2024

  • Brian Lara’s West Indies teammates form a guard of honour after his 375 against England at Antigua in 1994.

    ‘Impossible to bowl to’: Brian Lara’s record feats still stand out 30 years on

    West Indies great’s Test and county records in 1994 are recalled by opponents, some of whom had rooms in Lara’s house named after them

3 April 2024

  • Surrey's director of cricket, Alec Stewart

    Surrey eye history as ‘irreplaceable’ Alec Stewart looks to sign off in style

    Stewart’s final act at his beloved club could see Surrey match a cricketing feat that has not been achieved in over half a century

27 March 2024

  • A view of Worcestershire’s New Road

    Gap between county cricket’s haves and have-nots is growing dangerous

    ‘I don’t think there has ever been a more fragile time for the whole game,’ says Ashley Giles as he contemplates a bleak future

20 March 2024

  • Pickets relax with a makeshift game of cricket outside the Maltby colliery near Rotherham in August 1984.

    Cricket’s links to the pits endure along with memories of miners’ strike

    Harold Larwood and Bill Voce escaped the pits by playing cricket at a time when miners formed the backbone of the game
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