Cricket News, Records, Legends & Stories
Cricket News, Records, Legends & Stories
There are easier ways to become famous in cricket than leaving the ball outside off stump. Rahul Dravid never seemed particularly interested in easy ways. He built his career one spell at a time, one session at a time, sometimes one defensive stroke at a time. Fast bowlers could attack him for hours. Spinners could […]
Before Adam Gilchrist, wicketkeepers were expected to keep wicket first and contribute useful runs second. After Adam Gilchrist, that was no longer enough. He changed the job. A modern wicketkeeper could now be expected to take every chance behind the stumps and then walk out with the bat and attack like a specialist match-winner. Gilchrist […]
There was a particular sight that became horribly familiar to batsmen during the 1990s. The ball was old. Waqar Younis was running in. And somewhere around the batsman’s toes, trouble was coming. Sometimes the stumps were knocked backwards. Sometimes a desperate bat came down too late. Sometimes the batsman was trapped leg before wicket before […]
Some fast bowlers beat batsmen with raw speed. Others rely on swing, bounce or relentless accuracy. Dale Steyn combined almost everything. At his peak, the South African quick could move the new ball late at high pace, reverse the old ball, attack the stumps with yorkers and intimidate batsmen with aggressive short-pitched bowling. Then came […]
Few cricketers have ever combined power, entertainment and longevity quite like Chris Gayle. The towering Jamaican left-hander became one of the most recognizable batsmen of the modern era. In Test cricket, he scored triple centuries. In One Day Internationals, he passed 10,000 runs and became the first man to score a World Cup double century. […]
Few cricketers have influenced Pakistan cricket as deeply as Imran Khan. He began as a talented fast bowler. He developed into one of the finest all-rounders of his generation. Then he became the captain who led Pakistan to its first Cricket World Cup title. Across a 21-year international career, Imran scored 3,807 Test runs, took […]
Indian cricket history can be divided into moments before and after 25 June 1983. Before that day, India had never won the Cricket World Cup. By the evening, Kapil Dev was standing on the Lord’s balcony holding the trophy above his head. India had defeated the mighty West Indies. A team few expected to become […]
Fast bowling is often associated with extreme pace. Glenn McGrath proved that precision could be just as destructive. He did not regularly bowl at the speeds of the quickest men of his generation. He did not depend on extravagant swing or intimidating theatrics. Instead, McGrath built one of cricket’s greatest bowling careers by putting the […]
Cricket has produced many great left-handed batsmen. Few combined elegance, consistency, intelligence and longevity quite like Kumar Sangakkara. For 15 years, the Sri Lankan great became one of the most reliable run-scorers in world cricket. He could bat for an entire day in a Test. He could control a One Day International chase. He could […]
Some batsmen become famous because of how many runs they score. Others become famous because they make spectators wonder how the shot they just played was even possible. AB de Villiers did both. He could play a perfectly straight Test-match defence for hours. Then, in another format, he could move across his stumps, scoop a […]
