Essays on Cricket

Cricket game is famous all over the world, and it has produced many good cricketers over time. One of them is Virat Kohli, who is also the current captain of the Indian cricket team. Virat Kohli started playing cricket when he was just 3 years…

Going by numbers, Virat Kohli, the captain, has achieved great things so far in his tenure. He is the only Asian captain to win a Test match in South Africa, England, and Australia. In ODI cricket, Kohli shares the record for most wins after 50…

Cricket might be played across 22 yards in a stadium but it is widely discussed across schools, offices, parks, restaurants, tea stalls and homes. Everyone has an opinion and everyone loves to compare the greats. Being one of the modern powerhouses of the game, the…

The monsoons had set in and it was drizzling throughout the day. The ICC Prudential World Cup matches were going on in England. India had started well, unexpectedly winning against the formidable West Indians in their first match. They won the second match against Zimbabwe…

The recently completed 5th Test Match between England and India marked the 2318th game to have been played in this particular format of the sport since the inaugural match in 1877. Trying to choose a selection of matches across that kind of time period would…

2017 has been a turnaround year for the women’s cricket in India. Sample this: Barely a dozen journalist were present at the press conference where Indian captain Mithali Raj outlined her plans for what was to be the biggest tournament of her career, before leaving…

My name is Muhammed Shaheer Younus and I’m currently 15 years old. At the moment I do GCSE PE as a subject. I play a wide range of sports and play as many as I can do the best of my ability. Out of the…

In the last 3-4 years, the cricketing world has seen a surge in the demand of wrist spinners in almost all the teams across the world, be it ODIs, T20Is or the different T20 leagues. While creating squads, the selectors/coaches/team owners put the requirement of…

It began a long time back, almost a decade when a young Delhi boy known as Virat Kohli came into the picture emerging from the under -19 days. His toughness was shown for the very first time during the Vizag ODI where he won a…

P. G. Wodehouse’s “The Odd Trick” and “How Pillingshot Scored” stories illustrate that cricket players are usually rude; two cricket players treat their colleagues rudely. To this end, Tony Graham forces Philip St H. Harrison to strip in public within “The Odd Trick”. Similarly, Scott…