Phones, sweets and sandpaper: a pocket history of cricketers’ unusual items

Tom Bailey’s mobile phone fell out of his pocket during Lancashire's Championship match with Gloucestershire .

Neville Chamberlain was not the only man to have had a piece of paper in his pocket.

Derbyshire left-arm spinner Fred Swarbrook , the answer was a lucky pebble.

Denesh Ramdin reached an excellent hundred against England , before pausing to delve in his trousers and bring out a scrap with the words “ Yea Viv , Talk Nah ” scrawled on it.

In 2013 , Faf du Plessis was fined 50% of his match fee for rubbing the ball against the zip of his trouser pocket.

Climate lottery has brought a very warm spring with under half the usual amount of rainfall.

In much of India , the spring tenderness has moved quickly into summer heat with much more ferocity.

Delhi had its hottest April since 2022 , with considerably less rainfall than is usual 0.7mm compared with the average of 16.3mm .

Andy Bull on Vaibhav Suryavanshi , the 14-year-old sensation with cricket world at his feet.

Malala , Miss America and the MCC: Raf Nicholson at the Women’s T20 World Cup launch.