Pakistan have a new head coach for their men’s Test team—the seventh such appointment in four years, and one that illustrates how the country’s national cricket has been caught in a ceaseless spiral.

Australian coach Mickey Arthur will miss the one-day component of their upcoming tour to the United Arab Emirates to focus on preparing for the Twenty20 World Cup.

On a summer's day in 1887, in the middle of a Surrey village green, you may just have heard the men behind Sherlock Holmes, ...