Review – 2019 Test cricket recap

Though 2019 was the year of the World Cup, Test cricket assumed significance with the arrival of the World Test Championship (WTC) in August. The year saw 39 Tests, nine less than were played in 2018. As many as 35 of them ended in a result – of which 25 were home wins – […]

Review – 2019 Test Team of the Year

The Cricket Cauldron’s Test team for the year 2019 features four players from Australia, three from New Zealand, two from India, and one each from Afghanistan and England. This year’s team has only one player in common with last year’s team – India’s Virat Kohli. Mayank Agarwal (India) Having impressed with 76 on […]

Specials – When Malaysia first hosted ODI cricket

The Kinrara Academy Oval in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur is currently playing host to the ICC Women’s Championship ODI series between England and Pakistan. Equipped with floodlights and having a capacity of 4,500, the ground got its first taste of ODI cricket back in September 2006, when Australia, India and the West […]

Record Book – The best List A bowling figures for Uganda

Uganda’s medium-fast bowler Bilal Hassun collected match-winning figures of 5/27 from 8.4 overs in his team’s fourth World Cup Challenge League encounter against Italy at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground Turf 2 in Oman yesterday. This was the first ever instance of Ugandan bowler taking five wickets in a List A match. On that […]

Record Book – Highest Test scores by New Zealand wicketkeepers

Bradley-John Watling has made history by becoming the first New Zealand wicketkeeper to hit a double century in a Test, what with his match-winning 205 against England in the first Test to be played at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. This was the tenth instance of a Test double ton by a designated […]

Record Book – Zimbabwe’s first away ODI series win

The late 1990s and early 2000s were arguably the best years for Zimbabwe’s ODI fortunes. In September 2000, they beat New Zealand in a series for the first time, by 2-1 at home. Three months later, they toured New Zealand for a return three-match series. In the interim, the Kiwis had won the Champions Trophy […]

Specials – Jersey’s most memorable T20 wins

Jersey may not have qualified for next year’s T20 World Cup in Australia, but their spirited performance at the recently-concluded T20 World Cup Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates showed that they are fast becoming a force to reckon with in the shortest format. The European qualifiers won three out of six matches, and it […]