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'T20 drains you mentally because every ball is an event'

Aaron Finch and Ambati Rayudu pick apart the intricacies of batting and captaincy in the shortest format.

'T20 drains you mentally because every ball is an event'

Aaron Finch and Ambati Rayudu pick apart the intricacies of batting and captaincy in the shortest format.

The story of Robin Smith and the Judge

The former England batter was a beautiful man and a brilliant cricketer who took on the best and most threatening in the world and often won

Hanging in the balance

How do cricketers find equilibrium?

Aakash Chopra: 'As a commentator, you are reacting. You're being honest but your opinion can be wrong'

The former India batter delves into the challenges of dealing with trolls and with players unhappy at being criticised

The omnishambles Ashes: how England broke on the Covid tour of 2021-22

Tours to Australia are never easy, but Covid restrictions made the series that much harder for Joe Root's England side

Talking Cricket

'I wish someone had told me to enjoy my cricket and not worry about selection'

Oct 31, 2025: A domestic stalwart, briefly a Test player and now a sought-after broadcaster, Abhinav Mukund talks about the many twists in his career

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Photo feature

Net flicks and drill

Oct 15, 2025: A behind-the-screens look at where cricketers are made

Ekanth
Talking Cricket

Ian Bishop on working as a commentator: 'If I don't research every player, I feel my work is unfinished'

Oct 8, 2025: The former West Indies fast bowler talks about what goes into calling the game for viewers

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Interviews

Jayden Seales: 'I want to build my name, I want to build a legacy, I want to be No. 1 in Test cricket'

Oct 2, 2025: The young West Indies fast bowler talks about his best spells, what he's learnt from Curtly Ambrose, and why he sometimes picks fights

Interview by Nagraj Gollapudi
Talking Cricket

Jemimah Rodrigues is at 80%. The last 20 is nearly here

Sep 13, 2025: A young gun but a veteran at 25, and on the brink of her first ODI World Cup, the India batter talks us through her story

Interview by Vishal Dikshit
Talking Cricket

Aaron Finch: 'In T20, one ball can change the game. It's about taking the emotion out of it'

Sep 1, 2025: The former Australia captain talks about his T20 career, the success he had with Melbourne Renegades, and why it wasn't the same in the IPL

Interview by Matt Roller
Feature

Deadly down under: Derek Underwood's World Series Cricket chapter

Aug 29, 2025: When the England spinner and some of his Kent team-mates signed for Kerry Packer's breakaway enterprise in the '70s, it nearly broke the county apart

Mark Peel
Interviews

Colin Munro: 'If you score, you score. If you don't, it's not the end of the world'

Aug 28, 2025: The Trinbago Knight Riders opener talks about his return to the franchise, freeing himself from price-tag pressure, and the future of T20 freelancers

Interview by Deivarayan Muthu
Photo feature

Save the last laugh

Aug 27, 2025: Cricket gives you plenty of reasons to smile

Deepti Unni
Talking Cricket

Katey Martin: 'This isn't a job - we're literally talking about cricket. How fun is that?'

Aug 14, 2025: The former New Zealand wicketkeeper talks about her seamless transition to broadcast, finding her voice, and learning to love Hawk-Eye

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Writers
  • Karthik Krishnaswamy
    What's gone wrong for Suryakumar Yadav? India's T20I captain has not been among the runs for over a year, and the numbers suggest that worrying technical issues may have crept into his game against pace
  • Andrew McGlashan
    BBL all-time XI: Who joins Maxwell, Lynn and Rashid? With the help of ESPNcricinfo's Smart Stats database, here's an all-star cast from BBL history
  • Matt Roller
    Live Report - 20 wickets fall as Australia edge wild Boxing Day All the updates, stats, colour and more from the fourth Test between Australia and England in Melbourne
  • Vithushan Ehantharajah
    You're it, Ben Duckett, but England's problems aren't about one man However many videos and stories emerge in the final few weeks, there needs to be a collective owning of mis-steps for England
  • Andrew Fidel Fernando
    SL spinners, Pakistan's ODI form, off-field cuteness among things to watch out for How batters like Saim Ayub and Pathum Nissanka score in the upcoming series is also worth keeping your eyes on
  • Alex Malcolm
    MCG pitch howls drown out roars of record crowd The ennui was palpable as 20 wickets went down on another fast-forward day of Ashes cricket
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