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Photo feature: Outside edges

When the form is the function

Photo feature: Outside edges

When the form is the function

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

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

From catharsis to conflict, and other stories

Extreme pitches aside, the year's red-ball contests were fierce, and home advantage wasn't as marked as before

'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

Photo feature

Hanging in the balance

Nov 29, 2025: How do cricketers find equilibrium?

Ekanth
Talking Cricket

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

Nov 24, 2025: The former India batter delves into the challenges of dealing with trolls and with players unhappy at being criticised

Interview by Raunak Kapoor
Feature

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

Nov 17, 2025: Tours to Australia are never easy, but Covid restrictions made the series that much harder for Joe Root's England side

Vithushan Ehantharajah
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
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