Cricket has a willow emergency but there is finally a solution

Nestled amid 73 tweaks to the laws of cricket last month was a change to the very nature of bats that many hope will arrest a ...
The New York Times

The Ashes enter the Twilight Zone: What makes pink-ball, day-night cricket so different — and difficult?

The Athletic has launched a Cricket WhatsApp Channel. Click here to join. No team sport is quite so obsessed by the colour of the ball as cricket. Where the annual shift in English Premier League ...
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Pro cricket in the Bay Area: Rules to know, and what you’re watching

Don’t expect many donkey drops at the Coliseum the next week and a half. But there will be plenty of sloggers, dibbly dobblies and, if you listen closely, the sweet – or sickening – sounds of a death ...
The New York Times

Preparing Perth Stadium for Ashes cricket: A drop-in wicket, a 40-tonne transporter and sleepless nights

Perth Stadium is hosting its first Ashes Test Paul Kane/Getty Images The Athletic has launched a Cricket WhatsApp Channel. Click here to join. Perth. Five letters that stir vivid images for cricket ...
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Cricket is returning to the Olympics after a century. But the sport never left SoCal

After 128 years, the sport of cricket will once again take the field in the summer Olympics in 2028. The first — and only time — the sport was in the summer games was in 1900 in Paris — the ...