Cricket News, Records, Legends & Stories
Cricket News, Records, Legends & Stories
Cricket has produced great batsmen. It has produced great bowlers. Finding one player capable of performing at an elite level in both disciplines for nearly two decades is considerably rarer. Jacques Kallis was one of those players. The South African all-rounder finished his international career with more than 25,000 runs and 500 wickets, numbers that […]
There are great bowlers, record-breaking bowlers and bowlers who force the sport to rethink what is possible. Muttiah Muralitharan belonged to all three categories. The Sri Lankan off-spinner finished his Test career with 800 wickets, more than any other bowler in the history of the format. He also took 534 wickets in One Day Internationals. […]
Few cricketers have influenced a match with both bat and ball as dramatically as Sir Ian Botham. For England, Botham became the kind of player who could change a Test match in a single session. He could attack fast bowlers with fearless hitting, break partnerships with swing and seam, and lift an entire team through […]
Cricket has produced extraordinary batsmen in every generation, but one number still stands apart from almost everything else in the sport: 99.94. That was Sir Donald Bradman’s batting average when his Test career ended in 1948. More than seven decades later, the figure remains one of cricket’s most famous statistics. Bradman played only 52 Tests, […]
Some batsmen are remembered for consistency. Others are remembered for records. Brian Lara is remembered for both, but neither fully explains what made him special. At his best, Lara could take control of a match almost single-handedly. His high backlift, flowing stroke play and ability to score enormous innings made him one of the most […]
Fast bowling has produced many great names, but few bowlers changed the art of swing bowling quite like Wasim Akram. For more than a decade, the Pakistani left-arm fast bowler troubled some of the finest batsmen in world cricket with pace, late movement and an extraordinary ability to make the ball swing in both directions. […]
Few names in cricket carry the same weight as Sachin Tendulkar. For more than two decades, the Indian batting legend walked to the crease with millions of people watching his every move. Expectations followed him everywhere, yet Tendulkar continued scoring runs against some of the finest bowlers cricket has ever produced. His career was extraordinary […]
