The Cricket Monthly is a digital magazine from ESPNcricinfo, the world's leading cricket website. The most in-depth cricket features, interviews, profiles and analyses. The finest photographs. The biggest names in cricket writing.

Jan 4, 2025 · S ince the start of this decade, among bowlers who have bowled 50 or more full tosses in T20 cricket, Jasprit Bumrah has been hurt the least. In fact, bowlers will kill to have as their overall record the returns Bumrah has on the full …

Mar 14, 2024 · T hursday marks the 20th anniversary of West Indies' lowest-ever Test total, 47 all out against England at Sabina Park, Jamaica. Steve Harmison ran through them, returning career-best figures of 7 for 12, and announcing himself as a world-class fast bowler.. Harmison remembers the short journey from Dhaka to Chittagong in October 2003 that prompted a fresh wave of innuendo about his commitment.

Nov 22, 2024 · Ahead of its Time Angelo Mathews' spectacular boundary save. There was a time when fielders being acrobatic on the boundary to save runs or dismiss batters wasn't the norm

Dec 13, 2024 · I ndia's win in the 2021 Gabba Test against Australia, played in the middle of a Covid lockdown, will forever be counted among the greatest Test matches. Here's the story of the match in the words of some who played and were present in the dressing rooms. Vikram Rathour, India assistant coach: In Sydney [third Test] people were allowed to go out and have meals and walk around, but suddenly [in ...

Jun 3, 2024 · H einrich Klaasen has been in phenomenal T20 form since the start of 2023, hitting innumerable sixes and striking at over 180. AB de Villiers ranks him as the best player of spin in the format currently. How does Klaasen do what he does the best? During the IPL, where he played for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Klaasen spoke to us in depth about his power-hitting, working out his bat swing, and his ...

Oct 1, 2018 · And why this might be changing. Today they are the biggest manufacturer of cricket balls in the world. In Test matches, their hegemony prevails everywhere but India, where the SG ball is used, and England and the West Indies, where the Dukes ball is.

Somehow Sobey found out what Slug had said. Victoria elected to bat, but we knocked 'em over for 101. Sobey got three wickets. Then he went in and made 124 and came out and got six more wickets as South Australia secured an innings-and-46-runs victory inside three days. So Sobey beat Victoria all by himself.

Dec 9, 2024 · Faridabad. March 7, 2002 "Very much a shovel, more than anything else. Can't call it a paddle sweep," Sanjay Manjrekar says on commentary. He hadn't seen the like before, even if people who watched the Perth ODI between Australia and Zimbabwe on February 4, 2001, had. Dougie Marillier has just stepped across his stumps, placed his bat low and under the attempted yorker from Zaheer Khan, and ...

Sep 18, 2023 · India vs Pakistan, Austral-Asia Cup final, Sharjah 1986. Pakistan won by one wicket. I t was during the tournament following the one where Javed Miandad's last-ball six had reverberated around the (cricketing) world. I was in the lift …