Christian Ryan's Blog

Twice on the 1977-78 tour of Australia, Sunny was out bowled for zero

The wind in the WACA and other Perth phenomena

Chandra and Qadir, Gower and Viv - a case for the transformative power of the miniature

What if there was an office he could go to, shut the door, do the thing that was inside him and no one ever had to see it?

Short, slight, fast, skiddy, moves it sideways, in-drifts it, and gets good bounce. And the last Australia probably saw of him was two one-over spells

Chatara to Dhawan: six balls, no runs, six paragraphs. There's a certain poetry about the maiden over

Or how England can take a simple idea and stretch it till it makes no sense at all

On the first morning of the World Cup: a most engrossing 14 runs

It's natural that cricket's obsessives should relish the sparkle of Afghanistan's play this World Cup

The long-lasting memory of a young batsman we have never seen before is of that one brilliant shot announcing his arrival