India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 5th day

Dead pitches killing Tests in India

Nov 20, 2009: Why mouth platitudes about the sanctity of Test cricket when matches are played on pitches designed to drag the game off to the post-mortem table?

India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 5th day

Sri Lanka count positives in bruising draw

Nov 20, 2009: The performance of the fast bowlers, neither of whom are first-choice picks, will hearten Sri Lanka

India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 4th day

Gutsy Gambhir holds India's fortunes

Nov 19, 2009: On form, Gambhir is India's most bankable batsman. Mohali, Napier and Wellington are milestones in his career that indicate the calming influence he has had over the last 15 months

India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 4th day

Many lows for India

Nov 19, 2009: Stats highlights from the fourth day's play between India and Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad

India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 3rd day

Muddled thinking costs India

Nov 18, 2009: India lacked clarity in their thought process, and the Jayawardenes - Mahela and Prasanna - took full toll

India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 1st day

Dravid's highest score in a day

Nov 16, 2009: Stats highlights from the first day's play between India and Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad

India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 1st day

A bright but shortlived start

Nov 16, 2009: Sri Lanka's inexperienced new-ball attack gave India an early scare but Chanaka Welegedara and Dammika Prasad were unable to finish the job

Sri Lanka in India 2009-10

Sri Lanka well poised to challenge India

Nov 15, 2009: A statistical preview to the three-Test series between India and Sri Lanka

The future of one-day cricket

TV ratings bring good news for 50-over cricket

Nov 15, 2009: The seven-match one-day international series between India and Australia, with its sellout crowds and high TRPs, has made the talk of 'the death of ODIs' sound premature

'Awesome feeling to get that Chennai hundred'

Nov 15, 2009: Sachin Tendulkar on the highest points in his extraordinary career

20 years of Tendulkar

Keep piling 'em on

Nov 15, 2009: Cricinfo takes a look at the records Sachin Tendulkar has set in his still thriving career

An Australian sort of hero

Nov 15, 2009: Tendulkar's single-minded dedication to run-scoring is something they identify with Down Under

Far ahead of the competition

Nov 15, 2009: Stats analysis of Sachin Tendulkar's ODI career

At his best against the best

Nov 15, 2009: Stats analysis of Sachin Tendulkar's Test career

Man-child superstar

Nov 15, 2009: Tendulkar the cricketer seemingly emerged fully formed when he first picked up a bat. So too perhaps did Tendulkar the luminary

Virender Sehwag on Sachin Tendulkar

'Tendulkar controls the game'

Nov 15, 2009: What are the things that set the great man apart from mere mortals? The ability to read the game acutely, pick the ball early, dedication, discipline and more

India v Australia, 1st Test, Chennai, 1998

Tendulkar outwits Warne

Nov 15, 2009: One team's champion faces his opposite number with the game hanging by a thread

Ranji Trophy 2009-10

Sunny in Indore but not in New Delhi

Nov 14, 2009: Cricinfo picks out the highlights of the first two rounds of the Ranji Trophy 2009-10

India's proudest possession

Nov 14, 2009: Tendulkar has gone two decades being a blend of the sublime and the precise, incapable of ugliness or of being dull; and those are among the least of his achievements

20 years of Tendulkar

'Somewhere there's still a 16-year-old inside'

Nov 13, 2009: From loneliness to legspinners, injuries to influences, Sachin Tendulkar opens up as he rarely does