His shots might look stupid when they don't come off but he's the only player we'd got who'd dare try them...
The Ashes were a mess and where we go now is anyone's guess. Much of what happens is in the lap of two men not even from the UK...
From Beefy to Marshy, via Merv the Judge and more, here's a feast of verbal sparring...
After the first day of the third test England are just four wickets down for 300 or so runs in the stifling Adelaide sun; surely they can't mess this up...
The writer of the cult English sitcom reminisces about his time spent playing school cricket and being immortalised in a scorebook for all the wrong reasons...
Anyone can fly to Africa to see elephants. Anyone can trek to Machu Picchu. But not just anyone can go to Paris to watch an Ashes cricket match. ...
His comedian son Jack was on telly more than the news last week, but it was Michael Whitehall who emerged the real star...
It may seem harsh, but it doesn’t come any more difficult than an Ahes series and affirmative action is required…
11 years on I still can't forget Nasser's dire decision to field first...
Sachin Tendulkar didn't manage a final century as his peerless career came to a close with a 74, the big party pooper...
With the cordite of the summer series still lingering in the air, England will face a hostile crowd, a negative med...
Rules, respect, eccentric... What could be more British...
I've travelled the bars, curry houses and cricket grounds of the country over this glorious summer, only to be left...
Stuart Broad's bowling prowess and more valuable lessons from the Ashes.
Retaining The Ashes is one thing, but only a victory in Australia will give this team license to celebrate place themselves amongst the greats...
A two test series against New Zealand may not be everyone’s idea of setting the pulse racing but for those in the know it promises to be a crac...
Brisbane Heat kept up their stunning run of away wins to defeat Perth Scorcher in the final of the Big Bash League. The tournament has been a tri...
When Phil Tufnell launched ‘Tuffers’ Cricket Tales’, the bestselling cricket book of 2012, he ran a Twitter competition asking his follower...
England begin their World Twenty20 with a match against the rest of the world's second team; Afghanistan.
This week, Danny Mills is cooking up a storm in pursuit of the Celebrity Masterchef title. When I entered back in 2...
The World Twenty20 kicks off today in Sri Lanka and will be as mental as ever, especially when these players spark....
Somehow Synchronised Swimming retains its place at the Greatest Show on Earth, but here's the unlucky sports that h...
He claims he's on the receiving end of a conspiracy to force him out of the England set-up, but would we actually b...
Mark Ramprakash will announce his retirement today. In this exclusive extract from Phil Tufnell’s bestselling new book, Tuffers explains how �...
While the weather’s been miserable at Edgbaston, I’m glad that my #tufferstales Twitter competition, asking fans for their own funny cricket ...
In an extract from his new book, Tuffers' Cricket Tales, Phil Tufnell reveals his mysterious bowling repertoire....
Kevin Pietersen has just hit an impressive 103 off 64 balls to claim victory for the Delhi Daredevils in the IPL, here's a piece from last summer...
It's often thought that genius is in the DNA and unlocked by pushy parents. But Stuart Owen has proved that the ave...
Choking, the yips, the nervous nineties, call it what you will. Scientific evidence shows that crushing defeat is a...
The brilliant form of MS Dhoni has kept India’s hopes alive in the ODI triangular series with Australia and Sri L...
I don’t really have five Dads. I have one Dad, but he has developed a number of alter egos since he turned 60. He...
Four months after the Enoch Powell's hideous 'Rivers of Blood' speech had awakened something inside of my 13-year-old self, the D'Oliveira Affair fanned the flames into a raging inferno...
If you like your sport and want something a little more stimulating to read than ghost written autobiographies of 21-year-olds then you could do worse than try some of these lesser known gems.
Super-sulker Sir Alex Ferguson has ended his self-imposed ban on speaking to the BBC but he is not alone in the sulking stakes – sport is littered with sullen behaviour, weighted silences and lower-lip pulling.
Why do we look at other sides shortcomings instead of our own greatness? Is English cricket too neurotic to enjoy b...
Reducing the world's best batting line-up to a bunch of village sloggers is no mean feat. All hail England, the bes...
So Usain Bolt wants to turn out for Man United? Sure, the guy is quick, but so was Jesper Gronkjaer. Here are five ...
These are bleak football-free times ahead. With the season now officially concluded our only sporting morphine will...
If you need a laugh, read this man's inbox...
They'll go down in music folklore, and in many cases nearly finished off their c...
Currently undergoing harrowing political instability, Toby L goes in search of r...
Ever had your house party rudely interrupted by three angry Ukrainians in balacl...
Overly long, needlessly confusing and all in all, pretty frustrating. Greatest f...
Omanis aren’t ones for pretending: they like drinking, whoring and shooting po...
In life we often take things such as "it is dangerous to wake a sleepwalker" as ...
He might have had the world purring with Yeezus, but increasingly average gigs a...
25 years ago, NME had the bright idea of knocking out tapes via mail order and i...
The best Tumblr of the week...
"OMG David.....I think I'm in The Matrix"
Two international trade agreements are currently being negotiated which, if rati...
In the first of what will probably be a pretty irregular feature, we have a look...
It's 36 years since Georgi Markov died from poisoning in London, and his assassi...
Italians aren't always known for their street style, but the Paninaro boys of '8...
You wouldn't get that at Stoke on a wet Tuesday night...
The Wu-Tang don tells us why he might just quit rap to go feed "poor people and ...
Bizarre cults have practised strange rituals and dangerous teachings since time ...