About Us
A home for cricket writing
that takes the game seriously.
CricAsylum was built on a simple belief: cricket deserves the same depth of storytelling as any great art form. We write about the game with the patience it demands and the reverence it has earned.
Cricket is the most literary of sports. It has produced some of the finest sportswriting in the English language, a tradition stretching from Neville Cardus through to Gideon Haigh. The game rewards patience, rewards close observation, and rewards the kind of accumulated knowledge that only comes from spending a lifetime in its company.
CricAsylum exists to continue that tradition for a new generation of fans — readers who consume cricket across all formats and all time zones, who care about women's cricket as much as the Ashes, who want context alongside the scorecard. We are not a news site. We do not chase breaking stories. We write essays, profiles, and analyses that assume our readers are intelligent adults who want to think, not just be informed.
What We Cover
Our coverage spans all formats and all eras. We write about Test cricket with the reverence it deserves, and about T20 without the reflexive hand-wringing. We cover women's cricket with the same editorial ambition we bring to the men's game. We believe that cricket history is living history — that understanding Bodyline or the 1983 World Cup is not nostalgia but context.
We also believe cricket is a cultural object, not just a sporting one. It reflects the societies that play it — their politics, their class structures, their myths. The best cricket writing understands this. Ours tries to.
Long-form First
We don't publish match reports. We publish essays, profiles, and narratives that take time to read and reward the reader for it.
Global Perspective
Cricket is played across five continents. We cover the Caribbean, South Asia, Australia, England, and everywhere else the game has taken root.
Honest Analysis
We use data when it illuminates and ignore it when it obscures. Statistics are a starting point for understanding, not a conclusion.
The Players' Voice
The best stories come from the people who have actually played. We seek out voices from dressing rooms, not just press boxes.
The Team
CricAsylum is edited by a small, independent team of cricket writers and editors based across London, Mumbai, and Sydney. We are not affiliated with any board, team, broadcaster, or betting company. Our only obligation is to the quality of the writing and the integrity of the game.
We commission writers from around the world — journalists, academics, former players, and passionate amateurs who happen to write brilliantly about cricket. If you have a story to pitch, we'd love to hear from you.
Get in Touch
Pitches, letters, corrections, and everything else: hello@cricasylum.com
We read every email. We reply to most of them. We're particularly interested in stories from outside the traditional cricket-writing centres — voices from Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Nepal, the Netherlands. The game is bigger than its mainstream coverage suggests.