First, Marcus Trescothick, sleepless and in India, shuddered out of an England tour, an England profession. Then Mike Yardy, a global Twenty20 winner, unexpectedly laid low. Numerous beyond and present England internationals – an entire slip cordon – observed the match. The motives they cite are diverse: pressure, homesickness, even “going cuckoo.” however, the cease-all […]

THE BLIND BATSMAN: AN INTERVIEW WITH HASSAN KHAN One morning, Hassan Khan woke up blind. Neither he nor his own family knew it, and wouldn’t for several years yet, but he changed into laid low with a genetic ailment. His optic nerves were broken, and he had lost his sight in a single day. He […]

Cricket’s grand finale, the 2015 world Cup final, will take place on Sunday in Melbourne. Hosts Australia trounced reigning champions India to set up a clash with their neighbor and co-host New Zealand. The suit is predicted to be watched by hundreds of thousands internationally, with the winner to gain bragging rights as the first-rate […]

1) Duncan Fletcher, Zimbabwe v Australia, nine June 1983 What was it with Duncan Fletcher worrying Australians at Trent Bridge? In 2005 the mere sight of England educated sitting smugly at the balcony become the final straw that apparently broke Ricky Ponting’s lower back. Twenty- years before, the actions of the Zimbabwean on the sector […]

There’s, in reality, something extraordinary about folks who like cricket. Once I first noticed the film The Terminator, I used to be aghast at the flashback scenes of a violent, dystopian future. Mechanized baddies striding via a pocked and cratered landscape piled excessively with rubble and skeletons. I may have groaned aloud. There have been […]