The ball homes in towards Virat Kohli. As he attempts to play a shot, the ball curves away late. By the time Kohli has realised as much, he has already committed to a shot: hitting the ball towards ...

My editors tasked me, having seen more than 500 Test matches, with whittling down the finest 30 fast bowlers who ever drew breath. It is an almost impossible task, but I gave myself a helping hand ...

Bowling is the heartbeat of cricket—where skill, strategy, and technique come together. Produce pace that overwhelms batsmen, astute seam action that tears defenses apart, or cunning spin that ...

Clouds gather over Lord's Ian Kington/AFP via Getty Images It has been cricketing lore ever since an American called Bart King toured England in 1897 and started taking wickets with a delivery known ...

When it comes to young cricketers who aspire to bowl fast, their coaches often stress on the release of the ball, the right seam position and the right areas to pitch the ball in. However, with the ...

Cricket has long been a game of competition between the bowler and the batter. Today, two fast bowlers stand tall above the rest: Jasprit Bumrah of India and Mitchell Starc of Australia. Both players ...

Talking to coach, Joe Dawes, about his bowling wards sometimes feels like chatting with a father about his sons – and not only because he often refers to a young bowler as ‘kid’. His current stint of ...