News

All the Australian state squads for the 2026-27 season

May 26, 2026 - All the state squads are locked in for next season with a number of changes across the board

Ask Steven

Who has the best batting average in the IPL?

Apr 9, 2024 - Also: was Sri Lanka's 531 the highest Test total to not feature an individual century?

News

The Hundred - full 2021 squad lists

Nov 26, 2020 - A look at the teams, players and coaches featuring in the Hundred tournament in 2021

Feature

Team-mates in love

The Cricket Monthly

Nov 13, 2020 - Katherine Brunt, Nat Sciver, Amy Satterthwaite, Lea Tahuhu, Lizelle Lee, Megan Schutt, and an anonymous male cricketer talk to us about sexuality

Lists

Ten great cricket movies and series

Apr 12, 2020 - Documentaries about cricket politics, Lloyd's West Indies, and Dhoni's CSK; a racy web series about scandal in the game; and a Hitchcock thriller - our isolation watchlist has them all

Ask Steven

Was Dawid Malan's hundred the fastest for England in T20Is?

Nov 12, 2019 - And have two brothers ever opened the bowling in a match like Sam and Tom Curran did recently?

Essay

The ugly Australian: the evolution of a cricket species

The Cricket Monthly

Apr 25, 2019 - How did Australian cricket come to be synonymous with hostility, gamesmanship and verbal abuse? A year on from Sandpapergate, we explore a thorny subject

Feature

'I have to give back while I'm relevant to my community' - Daniel Bell-Drummond on making a difference

Apr 4, 2019 - Kent's vice-captain seeks to fulfil his potential with an Ashes year looming

The future of English cricket

Why 100-ball cricket won't make a difference in an era of binge-watching

May 21, 2018 - The ECB says that its new 100-ball concept will market the game to a new audience, but the director of Death of a Gentleman doubts that it can succeed in its proposed form

Issue Home

April 2017 homepage

The Cricket Monthly

Apr 3, 2017 - Marvellous Mr Maxwell. Reverse swing in England. Australia's cricket statues. An all-time fielders' XI. Javagal Srinath. Cricketing relatives. Ranatunga's spats