Unloved, underprepared: what did cricket expect?
Amjad Javed, Khurram Khan and Krishna Chandran Karate play cricket for the United Arab Emirates. They also work for one of the national airlines of their country, Emirates.
A Christchurch miracle and an Afghan cartwheel
As chance would have it, England's match against Scotland was the day after the fourth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake.
Hoping to silence the noisy neighbours
Melbourne, 1981. Trevor Chappell accedes to the instruction of his brother, Greg, to bowl the final ball of a one-day international against New Zealand under-arm with six needed to win. And one of...
The art of Amla
It was an exhibition match in England against amateur cricketers. As expected, the pitch wasn't the best, and the bowler didn't have too much pace either.
Happy to be upset
There are two ways of looking at an upset. You can take a mischievous joy in it: revelling in the way the traditional order is set on its head and mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Or you can...
Porterfield attacks ICC mentality
Ireland's captain William Porterfield has not yet signed the petition for the retention of a 14-team World Cup, but based on his rhetoric at the Gabba on Tuesday, that can only be a matter of...
Why week 2 of #cwc15 is huge
How will the second week of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 treat the various teams hoping to make it to the knock-out stage of this competition?
Grim outlook at Gabba
If the sky hasn't quite fallen in on Brisbane, there has been more than enough rain to place Saturday's fixture between Australia and Bangladesh at the Gabba in grave doubt
Umpiring confusion reigns again
It took only seven balls for Samiullah Shenwari's delight at Afghanistan's first appearance in a World Cup to descend into personal disaster as the focus turned once again onto the...
Rise of Afghans
It was only 20 years ago that Afghanistan formed as a Cricket Federation (now known as the Afghanistan Cricket Board) so, in that sense, they are the ‘new kids on the block’ at this ICC Cricket...