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Chris Gayle sinks to his knees after tearing his right hamstring while bringing up his century

Numbers Game

West Indies: from amazing to abysmal

Series between Australia and West Indies used to be keenly anticipated not so long ago, but over the last 10 years the stats have been hopelessly one-sided

John Traicos bowling

The List

The sparsest and the busiest careers

Players who've played few Tests over a long career, and those who've played a sizeable number in a short span of time

Wasim Akram shows his frustration, India v Pakistan, C&U Series, 1999/00

Ask Steven

Test cricket's lack of centurions

Captaining on debut, the highest all-out ODI score and the most lbws in an innings and match

Graham Gooch portrait

Rewind to

The Dirty Dozen

As England kick off their series in South Africa, Martin Williamson looks back to a tour that drew the fury of the wider world

Merv Hughes gives Graeme Hick a warm send-off

All Today's Yesterdays

A moustache is born

November 23: The birth of a celebrated sledger and drinker

Review

Cover image of <i>And God Created Cricket</i>

Books

A jaunty history

And God Created Cricket has plenty of fun, good stories and research, but it isn't, as the blurb claims, the real history of cricket

Highlights

Interviews

'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. Interview by Sam Pilger

Interviews

'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. He tells Peter English about switching sides, and how much things have changed for him

50 Magic Moments

Pakistan win the World Twenty20

When it all came together, thrillingly, dangerously, solidly, for a team, a country, that needed it badly. By Osman Samiuddin

Opinion

New South Wales celebrate their Champions League victory

Ian Chappell

Why we need a truly global Champions League

Cut Tests down to three days, and use the franchise model effectively to expand the scope of cricket

Ajantha Mendis is congratulated by Muttiah Muralitharan for his ten-wicket haul

Russel Arnold

Sri Lanka took their foot off the gas

There was a noticeable lack of intent especially on the third evening and fourth morning

Mahela Jayawardene celebrates his hundred

Sourav Ganguly

Good on Dravid and Mahela, pity about the pitch

People come hoping to see a result, which is why flat pitches aren't doing Test cricket's cause any good

Mahendra Singh Dhoni examines the pitch during a training session

Dileep Premachandran

Dead pitches killing Tests in India

Why mouth platitudes about the sanctity of Test cricket when matches are played out in front of paltry crowds on pitches designed to drag the game off to the post-mortem table?

20 Years of Tendulkar

Cricinfo celebrates two decades of the maestro

Bodyline

Bowl a fast one

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