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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

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

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

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

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
Photo feature

The last possibilities of light

Jul 26, 2025: Looking on the bright side of cricket

Deepti Unni
Writers
  • Andrew McGlashan
    Starc stands out as the lone ranger with rest of the awesome foursome missing It was only the second time that Starc was playing a Test without Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon, and he got 6 for 71 after day one in Brisbane
  • Firdose Moonda
    Belief surges for South Africa as Markram makes amends in style South Africa's centurion felt responsible for shortcoming in Ranchi as he set the stage for the big hitters
  • Karthik Krishnaswamy
    Five ways India can regain Test stronghold, especially at home With India's next WTC fixture slated for August 2026, here are five ways they can bounce back after the bruising at the hands of SA, and earlier, NZ
  • Alan Gardner
    Why is Monty Panesar trending on the eve of the first Ashes Test? Bizarre broadside from Australia's stand-in captain puts England's former spinner front and centre of the pre-series banter
  • Alagappan Muthu
    When South Africa and India went off the scale A remarkable ODI played out in Raipur when conditions, injuries and two teams who did not want to give up went head-to-head
  • Danyal Rasool
    The uncomplicated joy of a Babar Azam century His century, after 83 innings and 807 days, shows why Pakistan cricket refuses to move on from him
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