Michael Jones (Michael Jones’s writing focuses on cricket history and statistics, with occasional forays into the contemporary game)
The decision was announced by Lola Firpo, spokesperson for the governing body.
Most XIs, real or fantasy, consist mostly of specialist batsmen and bowlers with one or two all-rounders and a wicketkeeper-batsman if they are available.
Michael Jones looks back to two matches in 1997, in which Waqar took a combined 15 wickets for 42 in two consecutive innings — and put Glamorgan on their way to the County Championship title.
Any team can have a collapse, but only England have turned it into a tradition.
Ed Balls, then recently appointed as the UK’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, accidentally tweeted his own name — and the internet has celebrated it as Ed Balls Day ever since.
Australia did not play their first Test series in India until some years after Don Bradman’s retirement.
Excavations at a site in the south of England have revealed prehistoric artefacts suggesting cricket may be many millennia older than previously thought. Michael Jones reports on the discovery.
England ended their tour of India by imploding spectacularly, losing eight wickets for eight runs as Yuzvendra Chahal and Jasprit Bumrah left them looking clueless.
Here is a chart of those who, as the number of countries hosting Tests increased, scored centuries in all those possible at the time.
Is being born on Christmas Day a good thing?
Unsurprisingly, most batsmen who make a triple-century in the first innings of a Test do not have to bat again, either because their team wins by an innings or the match is a high-scoring draw that does not reach the second innings.
England successfully negated three spinners in the first innings at Rajkot while the pitch remained friendly to batsmen, but how will they fare on tracks offering more turn?
Roald Dahl, born September 13, 1916, remains one of the most popular children’s authors of all time (although he also wrote books for adults)
One of the frustrations of cricket for the casual observer — but its delights for trivia fans — is that all manner of causes can lead to an interruption in play.
Claude Newberry, who played for South Africa against England in the last Test series before the First World War, remains a gap in cricket’s records.
The 2005 Ashes appears, then, to be a rarity in seeing all its participants exit Test cricket in barely a decade.
What was Neville Cardus' real birth-date? Why did he change it?
Luang Prabang company Prifira Lofts is one of several which have already bought a franchise, Mekong Marauders, to join Vientiane Viceroys, Namtha Nationals and Vang Viengeance.
It is human nature to look for patterns: it helps us to make sense of what we observe,these observations enable one to predict the result of the match in question.
A comprehensively statistical look at which batsmen boast the fastest scores in ODIs.
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