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Let’s look at the reasons for cricket’s popularity, its history, strengths, and rules. What teams play, and since when.

ricket, more than any other sport, is changing. Those changes are at every level and are both fundamental and tactical and/or strategic. Despite an image that is occasionally backwards-looking, set in its ways, and parochial, cricket is a sport that has embraced change perhaps more often and more readily than any other.

The T20 World Cup reached its conclusion with England emerging victorious in a thrilling final against Pakistan despite a relatively low run chase. Here is a look at some of the most unbelievable totals successfully overcome in the history of the sport.

There are a lot of people who love to bet on cricket, but not all of them are successful at it.

The Twenty20 (T20) format of cricket is the quickest and most erratic type. The average match lasts five hours, with just 40 total overs distributed, giving each team 20 overs to bat and 20 overs to bowl. Even though it can appear long, a One Day or Test Match is far lengthier.

Mott was announced as England cricket’s white-ball coach in May this year. With that came the responsibility of leading England at the T20 World Cup in Australia which began in October.

Ireland’s shocking victory over England during their recent Super 12 clash stunned fans the world over. 888Sport, which provides betting and free cricket offers, had made Jos Buttler and co. the favourites for glory down under. However, the humbling defeat at the hands of the Boys in Green has left England’s plans in tatters.  Brendan McCullum’s […]

Of all the sports played in the world, surely cricket is one of the hardest to simulate as a video game?

In the last 36 years, with the clock turned all the way back to 1986, England has tasted success in an Ashes series on Australian soil just once. When Ian Botham inspired a remarkable 2-1 victory down under, few could have predicted that future triumphs would be so hard to come by.

Has there been a bigger cricketing enigma in recent years than Ben Stokes? England’s superstar test match captain always has the potential to dazzle, but in the T20 arena, he has been somewhat out of sorts.