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WEBAbout Us. Another pioneering effort from ESPNcricinfo, the Cricket Monthly is the world’s first digital-only cricket magazine. It extends the website’s coverage of the game with long-form journalism that ranges wider and deeper. The Cricket Monthly aims to bring together the finest writers, original ideas, and a classical format, all in a ...
'I was the type who would be very, very good or not so good'
WEBJul 30, 2016 · I made two triple-hundreds, both against Notts.. I felt that in 2003, '04, '05, I was a much better batsman six or seven years earlier.. The pitch at The Oval in 1994 was absolutely lightning quick. I didn't bat for very long, but I remember being hit in the throat by Craig Matthews. Now Matthews is just a trundler, but he got one right beneath the grille, and I didn't get hit very often, so ...
How much have ODIs changed in the last 20 years? - Cricinfo
WEBApr 9, 2019 · Accordingly, teams chose to bat first only in 29.61% of day games in the years since 2003 leading up to the 2015 World Cup. Teams have preferred to bat first in 61.86% of day-night games just before this World Cup. With an extra format added, the amount of cricket played has increased, as has the percentage of ODI specialists.
Swing, smile, repeat: the secrets of Trent Boult's success
WEBJun 14, 2021 · T rent Boult had just been told there were at least eight things wrong with his bowling action.. He had already played Test cricket. His debut, in Hobart in December 2011 was - remarkably for a New Zealand player at the time - an away victory against Australia, the Black Caps' first Test victory in that country since 1985. He chipped in with four wickets in that match, and a brisk 21 on the ...
When Don met Kerry - Cricinfo
WEBFeature. When Don met Kerry. How a little-known meeting between the two most influential men in Australian cricket changed the game's landscape. O ne Saturday morning in early 1996, Ray Martin's phone rang. On the other end was Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man, bearing good tidings for his television network's most bankable personality.
What does a batsman see? - Cricinfo
WEBMar 7, 2018 · I t is late December 1971. A tall, 23-year-old South Australian by the name of Greg Chappell walks down the ornate wood-and-iron staircase of Hadley's Orient Hotel in Hobart. He is meeting his older brother Ian for dinner. The two have been parachuted in to bolster a Tasmania Combined XI for their first-class match against a star-studded World XI featuring Sunil Gavaskar, Garry Sobers, Bishan ...
Faf du Plessis: in the skin of a lion - Cricinfo
WEBMay 17, 2021 · A steady drizzle compounded the melancholic mood around Southampton as South Africa prepared for their next match of the 2019 World Cup. Three straight defeats had brought their campaign to the brink. A sense of ennui mingled with the moisture in the air. A pack of hungover journalists lurked on the periphery of the indoor nets of the Rose Bowl like carrion birds, eager to pick at the bones of ...
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 ...