Take a casual glance at the Cricket World Cup table and you might think that England are sitting pretty. They are second in the table, with the maximum six points from three games and an enviable net ...

New safety measures are being considered so that play can resume.

Cambridgeshire's Foxton Granta lifted the National Village Cup after beating Gloucestershire side Dumbleton at Lord's on Sunday Village cricket is struggling in the region that has produced the latest ...

The sight of a cricket match on your local green on a Sunday is fast becoming a rarity, but some clubs have bucked the trend with new blood Simon Heffer is an author, historian and biographer. He also ...

Implausible victories, such as that seen on a Staffordshire pitch last week, are all part of the joy of this eccentric, chaotic pastime William Sitwell is the restaurant critic and a columnist for The ...

Detectives Barnaby and Troy investigate the murder of Tara Cavendish, who is beaten to death with a cricket bat near a quarry on her husband's estate. Dean Man’s Eleven - Fletcher's Cross is preparing ...

Village cricket conjured much to the imagination; a patch of land, owned by the local upper class. A pub at hand, barrels primed for the close of play. And a duck pond or river, into which the burly ...