Mitchell Starc has punished England with the bat, lifting Australia to a 116-run first-innings lead on Day 3 of the second Ashes cricket test.

England will be praying for a Ben Stokes miracle to somehow avoid defeat in this second NRMA Insurance Ashes Test after ...

A single cow only makes 15 Dukes cricket balls. Whereas a butcher might pride themselves on achieving maximum bang for their bovine buck by using almost the entire animal from nose to tail, it turns ...

After the resounding success of "What's Inside a Cricket Ball?" it is time for round two of this fascinating series—how are cricket bats made? In his play The Real Thing, the Czech-born English ...

When it comes to cricket bats, it may actually be a grass -- not a wood. This is an Inside Science story. The crack of a bat as it strikes a ball is the sound of summer in both the United States and ...

Success in sports comes from skill and dedication but having the right equipment can make a huge difference, too. In cricket, one of the world’s most popular sports, the quality of the cricket bat ...

That’s a sticky wicket! In Phoenix, you no longer need Google to figure out what that means. You simply can find out in person. On Friday, the city unveiled three fields – er, pitches – dedicated ...

Sonu Lakhanpal used a fallen tree limb to pull back the thorny blackberry bushes that gobbled up a cricket ball smacked past the boundary. He leaned into the branch while another player reached into ...

The Brisbane Test poses particular challenges, from the significance of the toss to the glare of the floodlights and ...

Most of the time, when someone mentions the sport of cricket in America, that’s exactly what they get. Crickets. But maybe you heard about Team USA’s shocking upset over Pakistan in the Twenty20 ...

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