Red ball, white ball, pink ball, no ball, Kookaburra ball, Duke ball, seaming ball, reverse-swinging ball, spinning ball, old ball, new ball, hard ball, soft ball... With so much tacit language in ...

April 18, 2008 In the game of cricket, the express bowler holds a special place – the fastest of the fast deliver the ball at around 100mph – it’s scary to watch, because at those speeds, 5.75 ounces ...

A single cow only makes 15 Dukes cricket balls. Whereas a butcher might pride themselves on achieving maximum bang for their bovine buck by using almost the entire animal from nose to tail, it turns ...

The game of cricket is believed to have originated in rural England sometime in the 16th or 17th century. The earliest versions of cricket balls had no standard size, weight or stitching: they were ...

The wait continues for cricket clubs trying to purchase Omtex training balls designated for the T20 competition due to their ...

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 ...

Researchers have started to unravel the mysteries of how near-horizontal bowling in cricket leads to such tough-to-hit balls. The team employed a wake survey rake device made of multiple tubes ...

A contentious rule change imposed during the coronavirus pandemic is set to alter cricket’s playing conditions as fears prevail that the contest will skew in favor of batters. The International ...

Cricket is now back on in England, despite Boris Johnson declaring cricket balls a “natural vector of disease”. His statement has frustrated cricket fans and players, but has also raised the wider ...