Cricket News, Records, Legends & Stories
Cricket News, Records, Legends & Stories
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 […]
Every cricket nation has moments that change the way the world sees them. For Ireland, one of those moments arrived in Bengaluru on 2 March 2011. England had scored 327. Ireland were five wickets down and appeared to be heading towards defeat. Then Kevin O’Brien began hitting. What followed became one of the most famous […]
Long before New Zealand became a regular contender at the top of international cricket, one fast bowler gave the country a weapon capable of troubling almost any batting line-up in the world. Sir Richard Hadlee was not simply New Zealand’s leading bowler. For much of his career, he was the attack. Accurate, intelligent and capable […]
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 […]
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 […]
