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, ...

Rhodesia 1st innings AH Pattison c de Villiers b Machin 128 VL Robinson c Machin b de Villiers 7 A Hyde lbw b de Villiers 6 CJR Hayward b de Villiers 2 GC Grant c Ashman b de Villiers 4 *JC ...

No. 2 Ian Botham: 50 and 149 not out; 6 for 95 and 1 for 14 England v Australia, Headingley, 1981 Ian Botham's confidence was low and his mood unpredictable when England arrived for the third Test at ...

"I've never doubted my batting ability from the day I could hold a piece of wood between two small grimy hands." - Rohan Kanhai, Blasting for Runs This consuming confidence in self was released in ...

Moeen Ali is an unlikely recipient of death threats. He is an unlikely victim of booing, too. And of a hit-and-run driver seemingly determined to kill him. An elegant batsman and a soft-spoken man ...

The elderly man sat alone at a small table in the Dorset Square Hotel, a pricey establishment occupying that patch of Marylebone where Thomas Lord cut and rolled his first field at the end of the 18th ...

The spinmeister Shane Warne "He was hitting the same ball through cover or whipping it through midwicket" What I remember about that Test match is that Steve Waugh and a few others got a bit carried ...

In a dark, enclosed school gymnasium, nestled away in the shires of England, Imran Khan changed his game forever. A little bit smaller than a tennis court, with wooden climbing bars adorning the walls ...

What a difficult choice. Trumper, my favourite cricketer of all time? I've seen film of him. From memory, he's wearing a large broad-brimmed hat and lashes a short ball over gully for four. Sobers?

"12pm, Gymkhana Grounds," reads a text from Mithali Raj. "You're well before time," I tell her as she gets out of her self-driven BMW a little later and drags two chairs to the boundary rope.

The art of catching the cricket ball after it has taken the outside edge is a special gift. Some do it well, some not so well, and then there are the gifted few who do it with what appears to be ...