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WEBHow frequently will the magazine be published? As the name suggests, the Cricket Monthly is a monthly publication. It will be available for subscribers and other users the first week of every month. Who publishes the magazine? The Cricket Monthly is brought to you by ESPNcricinfo. It is the world′s first digital-only cricket magazine ...
Strange love - Cricinfo
WEBSep 3, 2014 — Strange love. A lifetime of supporting cricket's most infuriating team, and now five years of no home international cricket, places the Pakistani fan in a unique predicament. Being a Pakistan cricket fan has never been easy. Along with the highs of World Cup wins and fast-bowling heroes, fans have …
How Kookaburra balls came to rule the world - Cricinfo
WEBOct 1, 2018 — Feature. How Kookaburra balls came to rule the world. A ugust 17, 1920. A leather-bound projectile with a cork core speeds towards a batter. There is nothing extraordinary about the object, or indeed the action of the man who releases it. But a sport is about to change forever.
Think catch, not save: inside the art of boundary fielding - Cricinfo
WEBAug 22, 2024 — Take a look at this.. Now this.. And this, which remains astonishing nearly a decade since it happened.. And then there's this.. The first clip above is of New Zealand's Glenn Phillips, charging in from deep cover and throwing himself, like Superman, in the words of the commentator, to take a two-handed catch a little above the turf to send back Australia's Marcus Stoinis in the 2022 T20 World ...
The winter of Tamim Iqbal - Cricinfo
WEBAug 19, 2024 — From role model, Tamim graduated to captain. Shortly after Mashrafe Mortaza resigned in 2020, Tamim was given the task of leading Bangladesh through the ICC Super League to ensure automatic qualification in the 2023 World Cup. Bangladesh qualified comfortably, finishing third on the points table. Under Tamim, they beat West Indies, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, South Africa and Ireland ...
Green days: the prettiest outgrounds of England - Cricinfo
WEBApr 15, 2020 — High Fives. Green days: the prettiest outgrounds of England. They're lush, quaint and full of history: cricket is a sidelight on these charming grounds. A s a foreigner from warmer climes, I have always said that when England actually does summer, there is no better place. The greens, the blues, all the colours of the rainbow in full bloom ...
How West Indies began their journey to world domination - Cricinfo
WEBApr 20, 2016 — Murtagh For Hampshire against West Indies in 1973, Roberts broke Steve Camacho's jaw. He was only young and hadn't quite learned how to control it, but my god, he was quick. Hayes Geoff Boycott used to say that Vanburn Holder and Keith Boyce would bowl a yard quicker in Tests than they did in county cricket. They weren't in the same bracket as Holding, Roberts and [Wayne] Daniel.
'I enjoyed playing but should have studied it a bit more'
WEBMar 1, 2012 — My father played rugby for South Africa and my mother's brother played cricket for South Africa, so I had a bit of sport in the genes.. Jack Cheetham took a side to Australia and I was invited to go with him as vice-captain, but I had just started practising at the bar so I didn't go. Bad mistake. I wish I had. I had seen Bert Sutcliffe felled by [Neil] Adcock in the New Zealand series.
Gold from a Madras furnace - Cricinfo
WEBSep 22, 2016 — Dara Dotiwalla wakes up at 5.30 am on September 22, 1986. He always does on Test match days. He shaves. "It looks bad otherwise," he recalls 30 years later, shaking his head as if having stubble is an unimaginable faux pas.