Cricketers often talk about “playing tough”. You want tough? Forget the puffed-chest bravado of contemporary pretenders. Instead we give you Allan Robert Border.
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Almost sixty years before Headingley, a comeback of even greater magnitude took place in the County Championship match between Warwickshire and Hampshire – CW’s Dave Wilson and Martin Chandler look into the match and its background.
Many feel that Cricket Ireland’s desire to obtain Test status is an unrealistic expectation but those who can recall a match at Sion Mills on July 2nd 1969 may not. In this feature Cricket Web looks back at a remarkable game of cricket.
Craig McDermott is one of Australia’s top 5 wicket-takers in both Tests and one-dayers, yet is largely a forgotten figure today. Why is this so and how good a player was he?
Back in September, Will Quinn pointed how lucky we are to be enjoying a very competitive era in cricket history – but is it really the most competitive ever?
A trip to India for a seven-match ODI series with your side handicapped by injury is not the most enticing proposition, but Australia underlined their ODI superiority with a 4-2 victory.
I have been of the firm opinion that people who run ICC do not watch the game. I could go one step further and claim that they don’t know much about cricket or rather don’t care about the game or its fans.
Last Monday afternoon contained the e-mail saying, “Neil, someone has had to pull out of the school exchange trip. Do you fancy coming to Tokyo on Thursday?” What could I learn about cricket from the Far East?
The Australian cricket hierarchy still appear unable to take T20 cricket seriously. This article discusses possible implications.
Sri Lanka’s Tillekeratne Dilshan has reinvented himself in recent times, moving from batting down at six to facing the new ball. Paul looks at whether this new role is just an experiment or whether it will be something that Dilshan continues to do for the rest of his career.