The other side of Denness

Sport's history is littered with dramatic comebacks from hiatuses. Daniel Vettori might only be graduating into that camp - he retired and resurrected himself to play one-day international cricket in the Champions Trophy, not tests - but any return ...

In the modern game, player burnout and match-fixing are ever-present talking points; in the late 1970s it was the increasing use of bouncers. That came to a head in 1978 when England fast bowler Bob Willis caused outrage when he struck a Pakistani ...

Defending a small total against a rampaging Chennai Super Kings last night, Johnson was again in the thick of things. It was in his first over that Kieron Pollard dropped Michael Hussey three times in succession. In his second, he was on a hat-trick ...

Mike Denness was not the first Scotsman to lead England at cricket, that accolade had already gone to Douglas Jardine, but with the latter's birthplace given as Bombay he remains the only one to have been born in Scotland. He also holds the honour ...

Former England skipper and ICC match referee Mike Denness, who accused maestro of ball tampering, dies of cancer. Mike Denness, the man who accused Sachin Tendulkar of ball tampering and dared to impose a suspended ban on the maestro, died of cancer ...

After an inordinate amount of badgering and pestering, a weary father finally took his eight-year-old son to his first Test cricket match - Australia vs Pakistan - at the Adelaide Oval in 1972. The boy wanted to see his heroes, Ian and Greg ...

Donald Bradman called it the greatest exhibition of batting ever seen in Australia. And nobody would disagree with that assessment. The Don was referring to Garry Sobers? 254 against Australia where he literally plastered the bowling spearheaded by ...

New Delhi : India and Australia have been big rivals on the cricket field through the decades. It’s not just the quality of contests between bat and ball that have made India versus Australia arguably the greatest rivalry of recent times. There have ...