Of the four men currently dominating the ICC batting rankings, Kane Williamson is the least conspicuous. The jerky, fidgety Steve Smith accumulates runs with robotic relentlessness, Virat Kohli bristles with impetuousness at the crease,...
The best programme on Australian TV is the weather forecast. An impossibly tanned presenter in a floral shirt flashes his bleached-teeth smile at the camera and waves his hand airly about a map of...
A jellyfish is the oldest multi-organ animal on the planet – it has existed for over 500m years. It has never evolved its basic structure which has allowed it to survive, but also consigned...
I walk down a quiet, Jasmine-scented road in the early morning sunshine and through the gates of a rambling villa, set in verdant hills, its pleasant, leafy garden spreading out on all sides with...
Swing bowling. A phenomenon as baffling to explain as it is to negotiate. The young Yorkshire seamer Ben Coad has already seized 22 wickets with it in three early season matches for his county....
Twenty years ago last month the ECB was formed. With some fanfare, the then chairman, Lord MacLaurin, announced the launch of ‘Raising the Standard’ – a master plan aimed at revitalising the game...
Cricket evolves. Cricket stays the same. You could probably say that for each year of the last two centuries. One of the sport’s abiding attractions is how it retains its traditional values but continues...
It is just over ten years since Alastair Cook made his test debut. Cricket has evolved substantially in that time. Switch hits and ramp shots and doosras and carom balls have been developed, most...
At the climax of an adrenaline-fuelled event like Sunday’s World T20 final, it may be hard to envisage the role psychology might play. Surely it is just a matter of the bowler putting the...
THE INDEPENDENT 14 MARCH 2016 To those escaping the grey days of a wintry Britain, the bright light of Cape Town is quite a contrast; a peninsula surrounded by water on three...
