Sunday 25 October '09
Two games into the International Cricket Council’s much-publicised Super Series, with Australia having walloped the Rest of the World in both, it’s increasingly clear that games between the world’s best team and the world’s best players aren’t going to provide too much in the shape of contests.Friday 18 September '09
Has the all-rounder gone rogue, or is he on to something revolutionary?...Sunday
12 July '09An insider and an outsider give a spin to one of sport’s great rivalries — India versus Pakistan on the cricket fieldTuesday
23 June '09The second edition of the World Twenty20 championships started with the opening ceremony...Monday
22 June '09Pakistan cricket came alive at Lord’s on Sunday evening in all its unpredictable glory and unrefined exquisiteness.Monday
22 June '09He had exploded on the cricket world as an overgrown 16-year-old, armed with a flashy smile and a fiery blade. He slammed....Monday
22 June '09International cricket is a batsman’s game, but in increasingly loud voices, bowlers are having their say. Between the inaugural edition....Sunday
21 June '09Pakistan were crowned the T20 World Cup champions after they beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in a lop-sided final.Sunday
21 June '09From Lahore to Lord’s in three months and 17 days: it’s not been an easy ride for either of these teams, but between them....Saturday
20 June '09An hour after Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul had charmed their way past South Africa’s steel, the train back from Nottingham to London....Saturday
20 June '09This time, they did not choke. What will hurt Graeme Smith most is the fact that they did not even get close enough to Pakistan....Friday
19 June '09It wasn’t just the Indian team that lost some of its sheen here in England this week; it was the Indian Premier League as well.Friday
19 June '09Lanka will surely take confidence from their convincing win against the same opponents in the group stages, but then again, Chris Gayle did not play that game.Friday
19 June '09Two days ago, it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team whose chase against South Africa crumbled like a crisp cookie at Trent Bridge...Thursday
18 June '09Their first match on this trip, the warm-up against New Zealand, India lost by nine runs; their last game of the campaign.Thursday
18 June '09Will the South Africans choke? Or will the Pakistanis self-destruct?Wednesday
17 June '09For a team who have been knocked out of the tournament a couple of days ago, a team left with nothing to play for....Tuesday
16 June '09Riding on 39 days of manic IPL action, Indians were the men in form, the side that had figured this format out. So what went wrong for M S Dhoni and his team? Bad form? Bad planning? Bad luck?Tuesday
16 June '09Five days of an interesting Test pass quickly. Five days of a Twenty20 tournament can seem like years....Monday
15 June '09England quicks send India out of World T20 championship, win by three runs....Monday
15 June '09When India play England at Lord’s, which side has the home advantage?Sunday
14 June '09For the last couple of years, ever since their World Twenty20 title in South Africa, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team have strutted....Sunday
14 June '09India versus England or Yuvraj versus Broad? It’s a crucial, must-win clash for both teams, but when the battle within is as mouth-watering as this one...Saturday
13 June '09The West Indies fast bowlers had a plan, and unlike the norm in Twenty20 cricket, keeping it in the right areas wasn’t a part of it.Saturday
13 June '09Salman Butt was belting it out of the practice area, as was Misbah-ul-Haq, and the bowlers ran in with purpose and hit the right areas most of the time.
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