Close of play: Day 1: Western Australia 142, Marylebone Cricket Club 91/1 (Wyatt 14*, Hammond 16*) Day 2: Marylebone Cricket Club 469/4 (Hardstaff 87*, Worthington 39*) Western Australia 1st innings ...

Talent spotter, brand manager, publicist, PA, troubleshooter, friend, guide - it's all in a day's work for the player agent Reg Hayter was a one-off. A long-time cricket correspondent for Pardons ...

Srinivasan's kingdom and Dhoni's adopted home is at the centre of cricket's universe, but what has that meant for the fabric of the game in the city? Have you ever seen Shahrukh Khan bat?" a senior ...

There is an instructive story about the origins of Jamnagar, and it could well be a myth. After Jam Rawal, the ruling prince of Kutch, avenged his father Jam Lakha's murder at the hands of his greedy ...

Fiery, difficult, outspoken, Fred Trueman belongs to a lost era. Fifty years on from his final Test, we look back at what he left behind It is mid-June, 1965. Britain is changing - the Beatles' MBEs ...

History would be kind to him, Winston Churchill thought: he intended writing it himself. Cricket captains have often inclined to the same opinion, setting out to tell the stories of their series from ...

The West Indies white-ball coach is on a mission to remould the T20 side into the world-beating force they once were ...

One of the editors of the Cricket Monthly recently made an enquiry about an article in which I had valued wickets by the quality of batsmen dismissed. He asked, "Can you then tell me what is the best ...

There has been no census yet, but Jammu and Kashmir could have the largest population of philosopher-cricketers in the world. Where else could you possibly hear a college cricketer say, "Yeh zameen, ...

Cricket - and cricketers - has long had a love-hate relationship with the press. The media are the first to broadcast successes but also merciless about failures. They'll hunt players down before, ...

The elderly man sat alone at a small table in the Dorset Square Hotel, a pricey establishment occupying that patch of Marylebone where Thomas Lord cut and rolled his first field at the end of the 18th ...