Ranjan Madugalle has been actively involved in international cricket for over forty years. That is a remarkable achievement. And there is no reason to think … Read More

Sri Lanka has produced many great cricketers since its emergence as a leading cricketing nation in the mid-1990s. Sanath Jayasuriya can truly be said to … Read More

India’s Sachin Tendulkar was always known as The Little Master. At 5’5½” he was certainly shorter than average. His youth may also have played a … Read More

For long periods of time since its admission to the Test playing ranks in 1981, Sri Lanka has been regarded condescendingly by the major cricketing … Read More

They were the Fab Four – Steve Smith, Joe Root, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson. Incontrovertibly the outstanding batters of their generation, they shared the … Read More

In a world where all news is bad it still came as a terrible almost bruising shock. For cricket, it had been a very difficult … Read More

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that being a cricket person in Singapore is fine because these days so much cricket is available on … Read More

When did (male) professional cricketers start to look the same? Of course I don’t mean that literally. Notwithstanding the panoply of helmets, pads and other … Read More

Joe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century in his hundredth Test. In … Read More

Cricket people love debating whether a particular player is great or simply very good. “Great” tends to be over-used but people engaged in this sort … Read More

I made (at least) two misstatements in my piece on John Reid. The first was that New Zealand’s Tests against England in 1949 were played … Read More