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 ...

The game of cricket is believed to have originated in rural England sometime in the 16th or 17th century. The earliest versions of cricket balls had no standard size, weight or stitching: they were ...

Red ball, white ball, pink ball, no ball, Kookaburra ball, Duke ball, seaming ball, reverse-swinging ball, spinning ball, old ball, new ball, hard ball, soft ball... With so much tacit language in ...

Whether it’s a fiery Test match spell or a thrilling T20 finish, one thing remains constant - the cricket ball. While it may seem like a simple piece of equipment, the cricket ball’s weight and size ...

Researchers have started to unravel the mysteries of how near-horizontal bowling in cricket leads to such tough-to-hit balls. The team employed a wake survey rake device made of multiple tubes ...

The former India batter added that although he encourages young players to aspire to become all-format cricketers, white-ball ...

A contentious rule change imposed during the coronavirus pandemic is set to alter cricket’s playing conditions as fears prevail that the contest will skew in favor of batters. The International ...

Cricket is now back on in England, despite Boris Johnson declaring cricket balls a “natural vector of disease”. His statement has frustrated cricket fans and players, but has also raised the wider ...