As I tuned my PC to watch something of the England vs. New Zealand game at the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup (on right now), even before I had picture the roar of a helicopter filled my speakers. I’d ...
Georgina Turnbull pulls a black-and-white photograph out of her carrier bag and carefully removes it from a wooden frame. We are sitting on a park bench in Twickenham on a warm spring morning and ...
On July 27, the Kaskas ground located in Beirut, Lebanon, was a hive of activity. But it was not the usual kicking of a ball that one would associate with this almost full-sized football field. The ...
When Afghanistan took on India on Saturday at the World T20 championship American novelist Marvin Cohen’s words came to my mind: “Life is an elaborate metaphor for cricket.” War-ravaged Afghanistan’s ...
In a prisoner of war camp in 1944 in southern Poland, as wet, wintry conditions set in, England and Australia played a game of cricket. It wasn't a typical match but it was, for the men involved, as ...
Blimey, I never knew cricket was once a popular sport in Schuylkill County. For about 25 years, starting in the late 1850s, there were cricket teams in just about every town from Schuylkill Haven to ...