Bodyline endures as the most emotive word in Test cricket. Seventy-five years this month, the England team led by Douglas ...

The English cricket team is currently touring India with the hosts already having sealed a memorable series win that has seen some hard fought cricket. Today, we look back at the first official tour ...

The first to get hit was Australia captain Bill Woodfull, doubled over and clutching his chest in agony after a lightning-fast ball struck him over his heart. Then, when England captain Douglas ...

Above three lines can be said to be the origins of probably the most controversial term to have ever come out from the 22-yards of a cricket pitch - “Bodyline”. The line by Hugh Buggy was rephrased by ...

To combat the prodigious run scoring of Australian batting legend Don Bradman, the captain of the visiting English cricket team, Douglas Jardine, instructed his four fast bowlers to bowl at the man ...

“It’s just not cricket!” – With the IPL auction around, this familiar lament against the shortest format of the game is not too hard to hear. But similar cries, only much louder, were raised during a ...

The year was 1932. On December 2, Harold Larwood delivered the first ball in what would turn out to be an epochal series in world cricket. England, captained by the Bombay-born Douglas Jardine, were ...

There have been plenty of flashpoints in cricket in the more than 75 years since an England team led by Douglas Jardine and under the auspices of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), arrived in Australia.

Few sporting events have caused such an international storm as the 1932-33 Ashes series which, at its nadir, not only threatened the tour itself but also political relations between the United Kingdom ...

Wrapped up and kept in a cupboard for 83 years, a rare cricket bat part of Australian history is being donated to a sports museum. The cricket bat signed by the entire Australian and English teams ...

Australia retained the Ashes as holders despite the series being drawn for the first time since 1972, with Steve Smith grabbing headlines on his return from a ball-tampering ban by excelling in the ...

Cricket provided some relief. During Australia’s tour of England in 1930, young batting phenomenon Donald Bradman took the English bowlers apart. Australian legend Don Bradman is bowled out during ...