Where famous cricketers grew up and lived
Explore the homes and neighbourhoods of 8 famous cricketers, and how each place shaped the person they became.
Brian Lara1969–1987
📍 Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago
Brian Lara was born in May 1969 in Cantaro, a small village in the green, hilly Santa Cruz valley in the north of Trinidad, the tenth of eleven children of Bunty Lara, a superintendent at a…
Don Bradman1911–1924
📍 20 Glebe Street, Bowral, NSW 2576, Australia
My family moved to Bowral, a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, when I was two and a half, and I grew up at 20 Glebe Street, right across the road from the Glebe Park…
MS Dhoni1981–2000
📍 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born in Ranchi, then in Bihar and now the capital of Jharkhand, in July 1981. His father, Pan Singh, had come from Uttarakhand to work as a junior pump operator for…
Sachin Tendulkar1973–1995
📍 Sahitya Sahawas, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400051, India
Sachin Tendulkar grew up in Sahitya Sahawas, a cooperative housing colony for writers and artists in Bandra East, Mumbai, living for many years on the fourth floor of a block called Usha…
Shane Warne1969–1988
📍 Black Rock, Melbourne, Victoria 3193, Australia
I grew up in Black Rock, a bayside suburb of Melbourne, and the beaches and backyards of Black Rock, Hampton and Brighton were my world. My dad, Keith, and mum, Brigitte, were great…
Virat Kohli1988–2008
📍 West Delhi, Delhi, India
Virat Kohli was born in Delhi in November 1988 and spent his early years in Uttam Nagar, a crowded, busy middle-class neighbourhood in West Delhi. His father, Prem, was a criminal lawyer…
Viv Richards1952–1974
📍 St John's, Antigua and Barbuda
Viv Richards grew up in St John's, Antigua, one of four boys in a sporting family. His father, Malcolm, was a prison officer who had played cricket and football for Antigua, and the Antigua…
W.G. Grace1850–1868
📍 Downend, South Gloucestershire BS16, UK
I grew up at Downend, near Bristol, then a rural village, the eighth of nine children of Henry Mills Grace, the village doctor, and his wife, Martha. When I was two we moved to a nearby…