When you’re sitting in a cricket crowd, or just watching on TV, it can often be hard to tell whether a batsman has hit the ball directly to a fielder or whether it has bounced first. I’ve lost...

Cricket is an interesting sport. When batting, it is largely an individual game, where a single batsman can turn a match with a heroic solo effort. However, when a cricket team is in the field, all...

To score a game-changing total in the game of cricket, batting sides will often need contributions from quite a few of their established batsmen. If a team only has one batsman capable of playing a...

A series of balls known as an ‘over’ is one of the foundational building blocks of the sport of cricket. To understand the game properly, it’s important for spectators to know what an over is...

Every player in a cricket team is vitally important in all formats of the game. Each one of them has the chance to contribute positively towards the success of their team, whether that is with the...

When I first started watching cricket in my grandparents’ house as a child, I assumed that the objective of the game was for the bowler to hit the stumps. For this reason, I was incredibly confused...