Cricket is nothing if not an evolving game. The earliest form of stumps was a wicket gate, which probably led to it being called a wicket. Nowadays, stumps have LED bails which show when exactly they ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, a new tennis serve entered the canon, the first ...

The earliest bowling was underarm, although that wasn't always quite as genteel as it might sound. The early cricket historian John Nyren wrote of David Harris, who propelled fast underarms from ...

Women may not have invented cricket itself - nobody can be quite sure of its origins - but many believe that a female invented overarm bowling. Englishwoman Christina Willes was apparently so fed up ...

February 1, 1981; MCG – 3rd final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup: After Australia had scored 235/4 in their 50 overs, New Zealand had managed to reach 229/8 off 49.5 overs and needed a six ...

If you’ve played basketball before, you probably know that most shots are performed overarm, with your arm going over your head as you shoot. Well, a new study says underarm throwing – or “granny ...

Here’s a straightforward question. Imagine you are throwing a ball into a bin. Are you better off using an overarm or an underarm throw? It turns out that this question has been surprisingly hard to ...

No one flighted them like the lobster. The lobster, or Digby Jephson as his mother named him, got more flight than Ramesh Powar, Nathan Lyon and Holly Colvin combined. His first-class bowling average ...