Specials

The dependables     

All-time XI: Six contenders for South Africa's three middle-order spots - none of whom was in the habit of letting the side down

Seven tons in a Test, and Murali's travails     

Ask Steven: Teams scoring 400 in both innings, and both wicketkeepers scoring centuries

Reason against force in the free-to-air debate     

The battle between the ECB and the government works at two levels. By William Buckland

'I never expected to play Test cricket'     

In a little over three years, Brendan Nash has gone from being an Australia substitute fielder to playing a Test against them

'Greed is killing the game'     

Ian Botham hits out at the proliferation of Twenty20, the idiots who booed Ponting, and all the talk of pressure