As a prelude to the World Cup tournament being held in England in 2019, Indian journalist Harit Joshi visited Broadhalfpenny Down for the...

A recently unearthed manuscript from the National Archive has sparked a re-evaluation of cricket's origins. The document, dating back to...

Four years ago we embarked on a plan to source beautiful photographs of Broadhalfpenny Down and put them on Wikipedia, Bing, Google and...

The Rioteers is a wandering club with a long history of cricket in the South of England; indeed this was their 60th Anniversary match...

The Times published a special edition on 25 May 1937 to celebrate 150 years since the formation of the M.C.C, featuring stories from the...

Cricket was unloved by 18th-century moralists. By the middle of the century, it had become a popular spectator sport. Much was drunk;...

In the fourth of his six-part series, esteemed crickety historian Stephen Saunders tells tales of the famous cricketers who are buried...

By Stephen Saunders Tuesday 23 June 1772 was market day in Hambledon, Hampshire and on that day the first designated first-class match...