With the laws of the game now encompassing gender-neutral terminology, the banishing of a phrase coined in Yorkshire more than 90 years ago seems a little overdue The laws of cricket are just a little ...

We set off to do a story on offspinners and left-arm spinners - similar to what we had done some months back on legspinners. We had hoped that our favourite mystery and left-arm chinaman bowlers will ...

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One thing that the Indian fans were waiting to see in this home season was the debut of young left-arm chinaman bowler, Kuldeep Yadav. Finally, Kuldeep’s time has come as he was handed his Test cap by ...

There is more cricket fiction than is probably thought to exist. Screeds of it, in fact, with a curious abundance of thrillers and murder mysteries stretching from Dorothy Sayers' Oxford Blue amateur ...