Associate nations: the tournament run that changed one country’s sport overnight
From a car-park net session to a sold-out stadium in ten days.
Cricket
ODI cricket isn’t dying. It’s being rationed
What the calendar says about the 50-over game.
Meet the teenage fast bowlers turning heads in Ireland’s academy
Five names to watch and the coaches behind them.
Women’s cricket’s rising tide: attendances, audiences and the next broadcast deal
The numbers behind a game growing faster than its infrastructure.
What Afghanistan’s ODI rise says about talent without infrastructure
Results first, facilities later: the pattern behind the surge.
‘We came to run’: a young cricketer on his first international call-up
Three years after leaving home, a fast bowler talks about pace, patience and belonging.
Ireland name young squad for cricket’s next qualifying round
Five uncapped players, one new captain and a very short preparation window.
The women’s captain fighting for a domestic game
“I just want a proper pitch. Everything else, we can figure out.” — Meera Kulkarni, national captain
The Afghan spin factory: how a generation learned cricket in exile
Refugee-camp pitches, borrowed bats and a coaching system built by players themselves.
Test cricket’s survival plan depends on nations it rarely schedules
The calendar tells you who counts. We looked at who is missing.