A team needs 28 runs off 8 balls. A fast bowler delivers a short ball. The batter hits it for six. Nobody knows how.
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The whirling has stopped
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An iconic final over and an iconic piece of commentary. Carlos Brathwaite, Ian Bishop and Samuel Badree look back at the four sixes and the rest
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Something happened at Lord’s on Monday afternoon. Something visceral yet cerebral, raw yet refined
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India beat Australia in a Test in Chennai in 2001. For those who watched it, there was magic in the air
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Adverse conditions and hostile bowlers often distinguish the good batsmen from the great ones. And some of the most legendary matches have attained that status because of the tricky nature of the pitch
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Joe Root’s team have pulled off a rare feat by winning a Test in India
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Twenty years down the road, you might not remember all the details from this Brisbane Test. What is likely to remain are vivid memories of time, place, and feeling
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Australia, India and the triumphant draw in Sydney
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The fourth debutant in SRT's maiden Test is leading a quiet life in London
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Ex-International Cricket Council umpire from Jamaica shifts base to New York, where he officiates in cricket and football matches; cricket talk prevails in new home
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You may think Hick and Lewis underachieved. Or that Salisbury and Jarvis weren’t world-class material. But in one tiny corner of India, for those two months in 1993, these four players were near-invincible. They broke several records. They helped England trounce India in their own backyard. And they dealt mighty blows to a 12-year-old’s ego
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India’s win in the 1983 World Cup marked a turning point in cricket history. But they may not have been able to upset West Indies in the final if it had not been for an extraordinary victory over Zimbabwe a week earlier in the unlikely surroundings of Tunbridge Wells
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In a hypothetical T20 spell, the sultan of swing faces up against the top batsmen of the modern era
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Dazzling with his variations, inspiring with his control, Jasprit Bumrah is a force of nature
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For too long, we have stuffed Indian cricketers into pigeonholes. Kohli will not let you have it so easy
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It may be generous to term this a “rivalry” but India v Australia has a claim to be the most storied match-up in World Cup history
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To follow cricket is to experience a number of JFK moments: you know exactly where you were and what you were doing when a remarkable event occurred. But occasionally, the moment simply passes you by
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To follow cricket, as with most sports, is to pick up lessons in Geography, to be introduced to parts of the globe that one would have never encountered otherwise
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When Pant is in a rampaging mood – scooping, ramping, kneeling and scooping over fine leg, wind-milling his bat with abandon, lofting one-handed sixes over midwicket – there is no limit to what is possible
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