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Bowlers in cricket look to challenge batters with swing, seam and spin bowling. Scientists are still learning how bowlers achieve them.
Playing Test cricket at night dramatically impacts the game, with bowlers thriving and batters struggling.
Data suggest when England goes into full attack mode, scoring more than 4.8 runs per over, they usually win.
Several leading Australian fast bowlers are injured but that may have been avoidable if the team was more proactive in resting and rotating key players.
The study examined the school backgrounds of over 1,000 elite men’s cricketers in eight countries over 30 years.
The World Test Championship victory marked 10 successive test wins for South Africa. Here’s what’s going right.
The World Test Championship has faced criticism from many, not that Australia and South Africa will care as they prepare for the final.
Virat Kohli’s Test retirement signals the end of an era for Indian cricket after he drove significant changes with his fierce leadership.
Steve Smith is now one of only a few Test cricketers to surpass 10,000 runs. Here’s how he stacks up against other players in this exclusive club.
Some 90% of the world’s cricket fans are from the Indian sub-continent, but how exactly did the sport build such manic support in that part of the world?
When Six Nations’ broadcasting deal with the BBC and ITV ends in 2025, there are fears the tournament could move to a subscription service.
Summer in Australia is often set to the soundtrack of a Test cricket match. That sentimentality can get in the way of seeing cricket for what it is: a hyper-commercial cash machine.
This is South Africa’s fifth semi-final at the tournament. Is 2023 the year they reach the finals and win?
Not since the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series of the 1930s has cricket been the source of so much tension between Australia and Britain.
Bazball is aggressively attacking, highly entertaining and piles pressure on opponents by scoring runs quickly.
The Bodyline summer of 1932-33 tilted the cricket world off its axis. Cricket’s reputation was well and truly tarnished. And these teams of women were the good news story that fixed it.
After Tim Paine’s tearful resignation from the top job due to a sexting scandal, the clean-cut bowler from Sydney’s west takes the coveted job, with great expectations on his shoulders.
To overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, sportspeople need to enter a certain state of mind.
The Black Lives Matter movement reminds us that using national anthems at sporting events is often insensitive and whitewashes the prevalence of racism in sport.
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