You don’t have to go too far back in time to find highly recognisable wicket-keepers behind the stumps of most of the Test nations. Think Gilchrist and Haddin for Australia, MS Dhoni for India, Sangakkara for Sri Lanka, McCullum for New Zealand, Prior for England and Boucher for South Africa. But in a relatively short space […] READ MORE
Author: Kevin Owens
kevbob1982Usman Khawaja’s Remarkable Turnaround
In a remarkable turn of events, Usman Khawaja only had to prove that his recently-injured hamstring could stand up to a game of smash-and-grab T20 cricket for the Sydney Thunder in order to be a shoe-in for the Boxing Day Test at the MCG. It was remarkable in the sense that a man with a […] READ MORE
Nighttime Test Match Cricket: The Story After Day Two
Stumps day two: New Zealand 202 (Latham 50, Starc 3-24) and 116-5, Australia 224 (Smith 53, Nevill 66, Bracewell 3-18) The pink ball All eyes were on Adelaide yesterday as the history-making Test match between Australia and New Zealand got under way. A pink ball is being used in this game as a Test match […] READ MORE
Record-Breaking Jos Buttler is on Fire
In the end it was brutal. Truly brutal. 100 runs off just 46 balls. Record-breaking Jos Buttler. Jos Buttler has endured a torrid spell with the bat in recent months, culminating in him being dropped for the third Test in the recent series against Pakistan. But the selectors kept faith in him for the change […] READ MORE
Third Set of Twin Centuries for David Warner
There was a third set of twin centuries for David Warner in the Test against New Zealand at the Gabba; he's now top of the list and hungry for more READ MORE
James Taylor: Does Size Matter?
The comments made in Kevin Pietersen’s controversial autobiography suggest James Taylor is too short to play for England. But does size matter? READ MORE
The Rise of Afghan Cricket
It’s highly unlikely there’s any other team in international sport whose rise has been so dramatic in the last few years than the Afghanistan cricket team. They have just become the first Associate nation in history to beat a Full Member country in a bilateral One Day International series, taking down Zimbabwe, and have repeated […] READ MORE
