South Africa crack on difficult pitch
Cracks have been forming all over the place during this series. For twoTests the brittleness was Australia’s, but in Sydney the fault lines havebeen s
The quiet Indian
In a team increasingly full of show-ponies, Wasim Jaffer is refreshingly old-fashionedAjay S Shankar22-Mar-2008 The bat does the t
Sachin Tendulkar: Masterful
“You take Don Bradman away and he’s next up, I reckon.” The verdict of Steve Waugh on Sachin Tendulkar sits alongside many other tributes at the tail
Coming to fruition
Tony Cozier on the recent performances of West Indies’ young fast bowlers, Fidel Edwards and Jerome TaylorTony Cozier24-May-2008 Fidel Edw
Memories of Maco
Malcolm Marshall ought to have been 50 in April. His biographer celebrates the all-too-brief life of one of the game’s all-time great fast bowlersPat
A day for fast bowlers
The only bowlers taking wickets on the fourth day were the quick ones, extracting whatever life there was on a surface dying a slow deathSiddhartha Va
Overall Test average, and more mosts without
Captains keeping and scoring hundreds; and most runs scored in the first and last 10 oversSteven Lynch23-Oct-2007The regular Tuesday column in which S
A world record for Tendulkar and Dravid
Stats highlights from the first day of the third Test in PerthS Rajesh and HR Gopalakrishna16-Jan-2008 Rahul Dravid and Sachin Ten
Golden boy grows up
Michael Clarke has grown up and is ready to seize his chance, writes Peter EnglishPeter English22-Nov-2006 The peaks were high but th
The other side to Gayle
A comparison of Chris Gayle’s half-centuries at AntiguaKanishkaa Balachandran07-Jun-2006Through the course of the Antigua Test, the one batsman the In