About 80 years ago, as war raged around the world, a British army man tried to spread the gospel of the game in north-east ...

Golf perhaps has been among the most dangerous of these. It's taken out the biggest names in cricket - Glenn Maxwell fell off ...

Close of play: Day 1: Western Australia 141, Victoria 133/1 (Lawry 71*, Huntington 32*) Day 2: Victoria 431, Western Australia 36/1 (Wishart 10*, Vernon 4*) Day 3: Western Australia 333/9 (Strauss 1*, ...

Close of play: Day 1: Eastern Province 132, Marylebone Cricket Club 96/5 (Crawford 47*, Hartley ?*) Day 2: Eastern Province 1st innings RP Hannam b Hartley 17 AT Lyons b Blythe 2 NS Hobson b Blythe 6 ...

Stuart Broad was born in England but made in Australia. His win-at-most-costs approach has ensured a complicated relationship with both countries. In Australia, during the 2013-14 Ashes, he was the ...

Have you ever had a glass of champagne on an empty stomach at 10.15 in the morning? The world is at once full of golden excitement, but it's all faintly unreal. As I left St John's Wood Tube station ...

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It is July 1998. I am 13 years old and watching cricket on the TV in my grandparents' house in Manchester. The Test between England and South Africa is being played a few miles away, at Old Trafford.