Fifth-day pitch. Fourth innings. The slow bowler will win it. Or so everyone expects. We look at the loneliness of the fourth-innings spinnerSimon Wilde21-Feb-2008 Statistically, few spinners seem to have relished the role of finisher…
A fan dreams of a clash between the two teams that have brought Pakistan much joy over the last weekSaad Shafqat20-Nov-2008 Welcome violence: Imran Nazir murders the Hyderabad attack in the ICL final © ICL…
Delhi's win wouldn't have been possible without a mighty innings from SehwagNagraj Gollapudi in Delhi11-Oct-2009Dinesh Karthik hit three consecutive sixes off Ajantha Mendis. Glenn McGrath returned to the bowling mark after 18 months and was…
The night before he scored the century that revitalised his West Indian team, Dwayne Bravo lay in his hotel bed watching boxingAlex Brown at Adelaide Oval04-Dec-2009The night before he scored the century that revitalised both…
The president-elect of the BCCI is a man who has made his way to the top of the most powerful cricket board systematically. And silentlySharda Ugra01-Oct-2010If ever a movie was made about the rise of…
South Africa's Player of the Year is his own man, and he has spent the past year proving how strong he isTelford Vice24-Jul-2010Durban's beachfront is no place for the gentle or the genteel. Its multi-storey…
Questions remain over England's middle and lower orders, with several players vying for places. There is no such thing as bad competition for places, but it certainly makes life trickyAndrew McGlashan at Adelaide26-Jan-2011England gambled in…
Kumar Sangakkara has led Sri Lanka through tough times, the team has acquired a new identity under his leadership and a win on Saturday will make him one of his country's best ever captains Sidharth…
Peter Roebuck was determined as a player, a fearless internationalist as a cricket writer, and desperately conflicted as a manRob Steen15-Nov-2011"Tragedy" is a noun flung around with thoughtless abandon these days but the life of…
ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the first Twenty20 between Australia and India, in Sydney Sidharth Monga at Stadium Australia 01-Feb-2012Improvisation of the day The switch-hit is not quite the novelty it used…