It was the hottest and driest English summer since records began – yet without any of the features associated with Test cricket in such weather. No high-scoring draws, no huge hundreds, no perceptible ...
April 22 (Reuters) - With T20 cricket becoming increasingly more batter-dominated, bowlers with the 'X-factor' could make all the difference in the World Cup in June, West Indies head coach Daren ...
Getting a batter bowled is one of the most pleasing ways to take a wicket for a bowler. It means the bowler was good enough with the line, length, pace, swing or spin to beat the batter fully. In the ...
Twenty years ago, Shoaib Akhtar became the first person recorded to bowl at 100mph (161km per hour) during the 2003 One-Day International Men's World Cup match for Pakistan against England. There was ...
India has produced some of the greatest bowlers in cricket history, with legends leaving a lasting impact across Test matches, One-Day Internationals (ODIs), and T20 Internationals. Over the decades, ...
Steve Smith interview: I don’t know if I’ll play in the Ashes next summer While England completed their Test series whitewash over Pakistan, perhaps their most feared current Ashes rival was across ...
TEST CRICKET—the version of the game in which matches can take five days—is a sport of oddities. This week has seen another one. India and Australia are in south London contesting the World Test ...
Twelve months ago, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), guardians of the laws of cricket, brought new laws into the sport while tweaking some existing ones. From replacement players and dead balls to ...
Swing bowling is an art of fast bowling where the cricket ball deviates laterally from its original trajectory as it moves through the air, either towards or away from the batter. This type of pace ...
Test cricket is perhaps the pinnacle of the sport of cricket. Consistency in form and physical fitness is one of the prime requirements of the format. And to do it over a long career and scalp a ...
Researchers have started to unravel the mysteries of how near-horizontal bowling in cricket leads to such tough-to-hit balls. The team employed a wake survey rake device made of multiple tubes ...
Chaminda Vaas, the former Sri Lanka pacer, is all set to join Delhi Capitals as a bowling coach for the next season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).