What is 'stumps' in Test matches? This simple question goes to the very heart of cricket's most long-standing format. Stumps are used for two different things in Test cricket—they're literally the ...

The reason for this became clear in a short while. The bails did not fall as the ball made contact with the stump. Some players of the Karnataka team walked towards the stumps to check if the bails ...

Cricket, as America is discovering after the U.S. team’s unlikely progression to the latter stages of the ongoing men’s Twenty20 World Cup being co-hosted by their homeland, is a magnificent sport. It ...

MELBOURNE, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Bowling with the wicketkeeper standing up to the stumps can bruise a fast bowler's ego, but Australia paceman Scott Boland said Alex Carey's stellar glovework in the ...

The ICC laws state that a wicket is considered to be broken fairly only if a bail is completely removed from the top of the stumps or a stump is struck out of the ground by a fielder, provided the ...

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 ...

In the Indian Premier League, the loudest moments still come from the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd. But ...