Talent spotter, brand manager, publicist, PA, troubleshooter, friend, guide - it's all in a day's work for the player agent Reg Hayter was a one-off. A long-time cricket correspondent for Pardons ...

When India played Pakistan in the World Cup I sought sanctuary from the madness. No better source for guidance than the greatest piece of writing on the subcontinental schism, Manto's Toba Tek Singh.

Fiery, difficult, outspoken, Fred Trueman belongs to a lost era. Fifty years on from his final Test, we look back at what he left behind It is mid-June, 1965. Britain is changing - the Beatles' MBEs ...

History would be kind to him, Winston Churchill thought: he intended writing it himself. Cricket captains have often inclined to the same opinion, setting out to tell the stories of their series from ...

The West Indies white-ball coach is on a mission to remould the T20 side into the world-beating force they once were ...

As a special-education teacher on the KwaZulu-Natal coastline, Pooven Govender is in the metamorphosis business. Not every child that comes under his care is transformed because, as he says, some are ...

One of the editors of the Cricket Monthly recently made an enquiry about an article in which I had valued wickets by the quality of batsmen dismissed. He asked, "Can you then tell me what is the best ...

"Fresh sea breeze helps in getting the grey cells working," said Ajit Wadekar as he quaffed an extra-large shot of Black Label. We were sitting staring out at the sea from his penthouse in Sportsfield ...

There has been no census yet, but Jammu and Kashmir could have the largest population of philosopher-cricketers in the world. Where else could you possibly hear a college cricketer say, "Yeh zameen, ...

Cricket - and cricketers - has long had a love-hate relationship with the press. The media are the first to broadcast successes but also merciless about failures. They'll hunt players down before, ...

The elderly man sat alone at a small table in the Dorset Square Hotel, a pricey establishment occupying that patch of Marylebone where Thomas Lord cut and rolled his first field at the end of the 18th ...