Features
Long reads, deep dives, and cricket stories worth your time
The Greatest Test Series Ever Played — England vs Australia, Ashes 2005
Twenty years on, we revisit the summer that gripped a nation and redefined Test cricket. From Edgbaston to The Oval, ball by ball.
12 min read
How Jasprit Bumrah Became the Most Complete Fast Bowler of His Generation
8 min read
The Day Sachin Tendulkar Changed Cricket Forever — March 24, 2003
10 min read
The Rise of the 'Impact Player' Rule and How It's Reshaping IPL Strategy
6 min read
Babar Azam at 30 — Still Searching for a World Cup
7 min read
Why Spinners Dominate in the Subcontinent — Visualised
9 min readCricket Features — Long Reads & Deep Dives
Cricket features go beyond the scoreline. Where match reports capture what happened, a long read explains why it happened — the tactical adjustments, the historical context, the careers-in-flux, and the decisions that only make sense when you zoom out far enough to see the pattern. This section collects in-depth cricket journalism from across all formats and eras.
Player profiles and career retrospectivesare among the richest forms of cricket writing. They trace a cricketer's development from domestic debut to international peak, documenting the technical changes (a remodelled action, a new grip, a revised batting stance) and the mental shifts that separate sustained excellence from a bright but brief appearance at the top level. The best profiles answer the question every serious cricket watcher eventually asks: how exactly did this person get so good, and what does it look like from the inside?
Tactical deep divesanalyse the strategic layer that sits beneath every match. Modern cricket generates enormous amounts of data — ball-by-ball Hawkeye traces, wagon wheels, speed-gun readings, pressure metrics — and features can translate that data into insight. How does a left-arm seamer set up a right-handed top-order batter differently in Test cricket than in a T20 powerplay? Why do certain captains favour attacking field placements in the 35-over band of a 50-over match? What changed in Australia's batting approach between their 2019 Ashes series and the 2023 WTC Final? These questions get proper answers in long-form analysis.
Historical features revisit the iconic matches, series, and seasons that defined cricket in each era — the 1999 ODI World Cup semi-final, the tied Tests of 1960 and 1986, the 1981 Headingley Ashes miracle — and place them in modern context. They are also the best vehicle for stories that fell through the cracks at the time: the domestic cricketer who never played a Test but influenced three generations of coaching, the stadium that shaped the bowlers who called it home for 40 years, the rule change that shifted the run-rate landscape of limited-overs cricket overnight. All of it lives here.