Cricket balls are incredibly hard and are the product of centuries of tradition and the extreme physical demands of the game.

Australian sports equipment company Kookaburra is developing a "smart" cricket ball, one embedded with a microchip to provide real-time feedback. The SmartBall has been in development with technology ...

The Blaze seamer Grace Ballinger asks if it is time for domestic women's cricket to expand into the red-ball game.

A single cow only makes 15 Dukes cricket balls. Whereas a butcher might pride themselves on achieving maximum bang for their bovine buck by using almost the entire animal from nose to tail, it turns ...

Red ball, white ball, pink ball, no ball, Kookaburra ball, Duke ball, seaming ball, reverse-swinging ball, spinning ball, old ball, new ball, hard ball, soft ball... With so much tacit language in ...

Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami raised his voice to revoke the usage of saliva for generating reverse swing, which has become minimal these days. Speaking after India's four-wicket win over Australia ...

England have missed 11 chances across the Ashes which cost them a combined 383 runs, contributing heavily to their series ...

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India owned white-ball cricket while South Africa shed their 'bridesmaids' tag but the spectre of geopolitics loomed large over the game in a tumultuous 2025.

After 36 wickets fall in two days in the fourth Ashes Test, BBC Sport looks at why 10mm of grass was so important at the MCG.