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Garry Sobers: where art met sport

He played the game with instinct and enormous flair, lived in the moment, and inspired generations

Garry Sobers: where art met sport

He played the game with instinct and enormous flair, lived in the moment, and inspired generations

The queen of English cricket seeks another crown

For over 30 years Charlotte Edwards has been at the heart of the women's game in the country. Now she stands on the verge of one of her biggest challenges

Riyan Parag: 'I want to captain the way I think cricket should be played - smart, aggressive, courageous'

The RR captain talks about his leadership style, becoming a punching bag for his bowlers, and his conversations with Jadeja and Sangakkara

Boy monster: the making of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

Behind the scenes of the bonkers rise of a super-young superstar

Always super, all the time: the CSK way

Ambati Rayudu and Matthew Hayden talk the philosophy and culture that built the monolith that is Chennai Super Kings

The Jury's Out

The greatest T20 World Cup 2026 performance

Mar 17, 2026: A key fast-bowling spell? An attacking underdog? A raw talent unleashed? Our writers make their choices

Firdose Moonda, Andrew Miller, Karthik Krishnaswamy, Sidharth Monga, Fidel Fernando
Talking Cricket

Varun Aaron: 'I wish I was stupider and just did what I had to, without knowing too much about the craft'

Feb 20, 2026: The former India fast bowler talks about overthinking, being coached by Dennis Lillee, breaking Stuart Broad's nose, and coping with injury

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Interviews

AB's baby: Ian Harvey and the dressing-room encounter that was the making of his famous slower ball

Feb 7, 2026: The one-time T20 pioneer and maker of the first hundred in the format looks back

Interview by Alagappan Muthu and Deivarayan Muthu
Feature

Axar Patel's time is now

Jan 28, 2026: India's vice-captain at the T20 World Cup and key allrounder doesn't like to look too far ahead; that way disappointment lies

Nagraj Gollapudi
Photo feature

Outside edges

Jan 22, 2026: When the form is the function

Deepti Unni
Talking Cricket

Wasim Jaffer: 'I was never happy with just a hundred. That was the Mumbai style of batting'

Jan 12, 2026: The former India batter on his life and times: playing school cricket alongside Sachin Tendulkar, his appetite for runs, and the famous India wins he was part of

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Essay

From catharsis to conflict, and other stories

Jan 1, 2026: Extreme pitches aside, the year's red-ball contests were fierce, and home advantage wasn't as marked as before. And India's world title raised hopes for a revolution in the women's game

Sambit Bal
Talking Cricket

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

Dec 18, 2025: Aaron Finch and Ambati Rayudu pick apart the intricacies of batting and captaincy in the shortest format.

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Feature

The story of Robin Smith and the Judge

Dec 3, 2025: 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

Mark Nicholas
Photo feature

Hanging in the balance

Nov 29, 2025: How do cricketers find equilibrium?

Ekanth
Writers
  • Shashank Kishore
    Kranti Gaud goes 'next level' with historic Lord's five-for The 22-year-old fast bowler became the first woman on the Test honours board at Lord's
  • Steven Lynch
    Was Jos Buttler and Harry Brook's 233-run partnership against India a T20I record? And does Marnus Labuschagne have the highest scores by a concussion sub in both Tests and ODIs?
  • Alex Malcolm
    Questions for Australia: How long is Labuschagne's rope, is Lyon fit, and more Ahead of an unprecedented schedule, the selectors also have to decide about Hazlewood's workload and if Green and Webster can play in the same XI
  • Greg Chappell
    Garry Sobers could do it all, and he did it with humility He could be picked purely as a batter or a pace bowler or a spinner. He was great at all those arts, while also being an excellent fielder, captain, mentor and friend
  • Matt Roller
    Stokes' conspicuous absence casts a shadow as Hundred returns By choosing to play for Durham in 50-over Cup, is former England captain taking a final swipe as ECB 'suits'?
  • S Rajesh
    Ben Stokes in numbers - An allrounder of dizzying highs who always relished the dirty work England's talisman ends his career with a record that puts him among the very best allrounders of all time
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