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In Cricket-Obsessed India, Soccer Soars in Popularity
As the clock ticks past midnight, Shashank Surana sits with friends, sipping beer and eating pizza, waiting for the big match to begin. On any other night at...
The Maasai Cricket Warriors
The Maasai Cricket Warriors, a cricket team composed of Maasai tribesmen from the Laikipia region in Kenya, head to South Africa for their first tournament...
The Cricket World Cup
India last captured cricket's top trophy in 1983 in England, when it was the unlikely upstart that toppled the dominant West Indies. That year's match was the...
Why a Battle with Bat and Ball Is Exactly What India and Pakistan Need
Serious sport, wrote George Orwell, amounts to "war minus the shooting." India and Pakistan have certainly done plenty of shooting in the three wars they've...
Cricket World Cup 101: Matches to Watch
The 2011 World Cup of cricket begins this weekend, and everyone's got something to prove. At the top of the list is India's Sachin Tendulkar. He is the world's...
Bouncing Back
In the middle of Sydney's Drummoyne Oval last january, stuart MacGill quietly wept with joy. His North Sydney cricket club teammate Trent Johnston had just...
England's Cricket Win over Australia Makes History
In a winter in which snow came unreasonably early, snarling roads, closing airports, wrecking the festive season for tens of thousands; in which a government...
Days of Glory
A hard leather ball leaves the bowler's hand, flies down the pitch and is met by a swinging bat made from willow. For more than 200 years, this has been the...
A Most Peculiar Grail
The contest for the Ashes, cindery symbol of Anglo-Australian cricket supremacy, doesn't appear to have much to recommend it. It does not determine cricket's...
Cricket in No Man's Land
Aaah, this is cricket at its soap-operatic best: two great teams act out the latest installment in a drama that spans generations. A cast of 22 men in white,...
Pakistanis Outraged by Alleged Cricket Fraud
It was perhaps the last thing that Pakistan needed. After weeks of enduring the misery wrought by unprecedented floods, the country has been hit by allegations...
Muralitharan: A Cricket Legend's Final Turn
Updated: July 22, 2010 One of the greatest final acts in sporting history is playing out in the cricket field of Galle, Sri Lanka: Local hero Muttiah...
Women's Cricket: Afghanistan's Secretive New Sport
The dust storm whips through town and obscures the mud-brick farming compounds built into the rocky hillsides 12 miles west of Kabul. The bustling thoroughfares...
Cricket Star Breaks an 'Impossible' Record
You may have been concentrating on the ice dancing in Vancouver. Or you're one of those people who can't tell a silly mid-off from a backward square-leg. So it's...
Saving Cricket's Soul
He was seen as one of cricket's most respected sons: captain of South Africa, God-fearing and charming. Then Hansie Cronje's dirty secret was exposed: for years...
Citing Security, India Moves Cricket Matches
After weeks of playing sudoku with match schedules and wrangling with the Indian government over scheduling clashes with the upcoming general election, the...
Pakistan's Cricket Attack: A Blow to the National Psyche
Scholars who have made it their life's work to study Pakistan often conclude that the only thing that unites this discordant nation of tribes, ethnicities,...
Afghan Cricket: No Losers Here
The call to prayer rings out; a long, deep, echoing sound that billows through the streets of Johannesburg's Mayfair district. Here in the heart of the city's...
After Attacks, Cricket Fights for Life in South Asia
Cricket is many things to South Asia. For India and Pakistan it is continuation of war by other means. Whenever England tours, it is a chance to right...
