Does knowing how fast someone is bowling add to our experience of watching?

Thinking the Australian team unlikeable is a habit people slipped into. There comes a time for eyes to be readjusted

T20 is bad for batting technique, but could it be good for batting mindsets?

At six past midday on Wednesday, Alastair Cook got a ball that was neither wide nor full and he greeted it like a stork helping itself to water

So ends another Ashes summer

Let us begin by listing the signs of promising improvement seen in the Australian cricket team today

The world moves in apt and mysterious ways, and so it was that on Michael Clarke’s first afternoon as Australia’s captain in the field David Hasselhoff was sitting in the crowd

He awoke a Test cricketer, and for the rest of the day being awake felt dreamier than the deepest sleep

Speaking of a sick-in-the-gut feeling, that’s when it hit me, a creeping unease

When Ricky Ponting wakes up on Test match morning, he is not the type to help himself to muesli and a Swisse Men’s Ultivite pill only to spend the next half-hour wondering whether he should have gone for a couple of bananas instead

The final week of the fourth fastest-scoring year in Test history – 3.34 runs an over, and counting – is upon us

“In a pond with no fish,” goes an old Russian saying, “a crab is a fish.” Twenty-first century Australian cricket throws up numerous variations on this

“Each profession begets its particular style of play,” wrote that master back-of-a-postcard essayist RC Robertson-Glasgow, in the days when cricketers had day jobs.

Swing

One high-wired June afternoon in 1986, Kapil Dev clubbed a six into the grandstand to win a Test match at Lord’s and Mike Gatting was minutes later being steered into the tiny physiotherapist’s room

People say baggy green caps are never given away lightly

In 1973 – a year when the Ashes were technically in England’s possession, but not for long – Mary Gates migrated to Australia with her husband and four children

The cap did not fit

Give me a time machine and a choice – one match, one moment, one ball – and I’d say take me to Old Trafford, mid-afternoon, on the 26th day of July in 1902

Jimmy Anderson’s second delivery to Michael Clarke today swung 11 centimetres, the mere width of a golf hole