When Abey Kuruvilla reached for the sky
He was a tall boy with big dreams. He took his neighbourhood along for the ride
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Hate to Love
The many shades of Marlon Samuels
Six-hitter, stonewaller, "Sextillion", the bookie connection - if ever there was a character who aroused mixed feelings in a fan…
Matt Roller
July 2020
Suresh Raina: it's complicated
What happens when a batting star doesn't scale the heights a young fan expects him to?
Loving and loathing Freddie
Infuriatingly irksome, devastatingly good: an Australian reflects on Andrew Flintoff
Valkerie Baynes
May 2020
Big little ABD
A bona fide genius: love that. The picking and choosing, the hemming and hawing: not so much
Shamya Dasgupta
April 2020
My friend Azhar
The man we loved to love became the man we hated to love and loved to hate. In the end there was neither love nor hate, but pity perhaps
Suresh Menon
March 2020
Piece of Kane
Everyone wants one. It's not easy dealing with the swelling ranks of Williamson devotees
The trouble with Kolpaks and KP
We want them here, working with us, not there, working for themselves
Hero in blue, villain in maroon
For a Somerset and Australia supporter in the 1970s and '80s, the King was problematic
Those men in fiery red shirts
Supporting pre-2004 Zimbabwe was the most innocent of cricket's pleasures. Until you looked deeper