Everything. The anatomy of a ball Let us, however, start at the very beginning. Was the cricket ball meant to swing by design? "No, they certainly weren't manufactured with swing in mind," says Dr ...

In the beginning there was no swing. When the first purpose-made cricket balls were manufactured in the Garden of England around 1750, they were delivered underarm and could not have swung ...

Arshdeep Singh has become India's leading T20I bowler, overtaking Yuzvendra Chahal with 97 wickets in 61 matches. Former ...

Cricket balls swing. Swing makes the game richer. It might be the least challenging of the movements bowlers access, but visually it is arguably the most spectacular. It occurs over a longer ...

The pitch: Green tops favour bowlers because there's usually moisture under the pitch, which helps the ball to swing, especially if the sun's out. Bowlers can get movement off the wicket if the pitch ...

"I bowled probably just straighties," she says. "I was not so cluey about cricket or how to make the ball swing." But a stress fracture she suffered at 16 forced her to think about her game.

Leading cricket ball manufacturers Kookaburra supply the balls for most one-day internationals. They insist the only difference between the two types of ball is the colour. The evening conditions can ...

But thanks to a Canberra-based couple, local Indian women and girls have become passionate about cricket and taken to competitive sport in Australia. Canberra-based Sanjay and Jasmine Sharma ...

In cricket a ball is bowled overarm rather than thrown, and there are different types of bowlers: from fast bowlers, who use pace as their weapon, through to swing, seam and spin bowlers who try ...