Saturday 21 November '09
Half an hour into the second session, the man with the most runs in international cricket — 30,065 as you’re reading this — was at the...Friday 20 November '09
Over four days, a total of 1,376 runs have been scored at just under four an over, with one batsman getting a big double-hundred and four others getting to three figures.Thursday
19 November '09India must’ve gone into lunch thinking they had a chance. They hadn’t set the session on fire, but had still landed a couple of important blows.Thursday
19 November '09Harbhajan Singh’s bowling fortunes aren’t changing no matter how hard he’s trying in recent weeks.Wednesday
18 November '09The ugliness of his dismissal was in sharp contrast to the innings Tillakaratne Dilshan had played. Zaheer Khan, bowling round the wicket...Wednesday
18 November '09You could see it in the way he was running in — focused, scheming, happy to help. You could tell just how much Zaheer Khan had missed playing...Tuesday
17 November '09Forty minutes into the day’s play, the ghosts of India’s last Test at this venue must have been chuckling in the home dressing room.Tuesday
17 November '09On the eve of the Test match, Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara was asked about the inexperience in his fast-bowling line-up.Monday
16 November '09Since the Indian team last played a Test match in April this year, they’ve been involved in 16 one-dayers and five T20 internationals.Monday
16 November '09Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about saving Test cricket and preserving its status as the top form of the game. Is it all just talk though?Sunday
15 November '09Since landing in India earlier this week, both Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara and manager Brendon Kuruppu have spoken extensively on how this team’s real strength lies in the flexibility of the bowling attack....Sunday
25 October '09Two 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 '09Has 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...
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