Umar Akmal’s troubled cricket career has hit its biggest roadblock yet, with the PCB handing him a ban from all representative cricket for three years after he pleaded guilty of failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him ahead of this year’s …
With still no live cricket in sight, we’re digging deep into YouTube to keep ourselves entertained. This week, a trip down memory lane with one of the most dominant one-day sides ever – Lancashire in the 1990s. Wasim Akram too quickWasim Akram forged one of …
Mushfiqur Rahman and his team-mates celebrate Tatenda Taibu’s wicket. In the space of nine overs, Zimbabwe lost four wickets for 19 runs © AFP/Getty Images From June 1999 to February 2004, Bangladesh had racked up some unwanted records – most consecutive de…
Why do a cat, a footballer, a Nobel laureate and a prime minister find themselves in the ESPNcricinfo database? Here are six player profiles you wouldn’t have expected we had. Peter the catThe only non-human to get an obituary in Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack,…
Could this pandemic change cricket as we know it? While boards are looking at closed-door matches – when they happen – in the short term, there are signs that we may be looking at larger shifts in the game and its laws. Could we see an English County Champion…
This time in Alternative Universe, the series in which our writers let their imagination change the game: our masochistic Sri Lanka correspondent wonders what would have happened if Arjuna Ranatunga’s men hadn’t won the World Cup 24 years ago The momentSri L…
R Ashwin has said that he is “fighting my own benchmarks” because his Test performances overseas are being measured against his heroics in India. Despite being the country’s best long-form spinner in this decade, there has been only one instance of Ashwin pla…
Our writers have provided incisive analysis over the years on what captains and players should do in certain scenarios. But how will they fare when they have to make the decision themselves? In this new series, Hot Seat, we give them a scenario and ask them t…
The ball from Jeff Thomson that hit me in the nuts was a full toss. I did not pick up the one from Gladstone Small that broke my cheekbone. Sylvester Clarke bust my right index finger with a good-length delivery that spat at my hand like fat from a frying pan…
“I felt I was not good enough to play red-ball cricket anymore.” In February 2019, Haryana allrounder Harshal Patel had doubts about his abilities in long-form cricket. He had taken only 23 wickets from nine games in the 2018-19 Ranji Trophy season. After Ha…
In these sport-less days it’s timely to ask: “Is this the best batting in a session ever?” No, I’m not talking about Sir Donald Bradman’s 304 in a day at Headingley in 1930, where he scored a century in each of the first two sessions. I’m not reminiscing ab…
Tributes poured in from around the world as Sana Mir, the former Pakistan captain and one of the premier allrounders in women’s cricket, called time on her 15-year international career. Thank you Captain @mir_sana05pic.twitter.com/QaibiZyHsl Bismah Maroof …