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Fawad Alam becomes the first Pakistani batsman to score a Test hundred on debut away from home

Numbers Game

Raw but ready for Test cricket

A look at teams that have produced the strongest debutants

Geoff Boycott  is interviewed by BBC anchorman Peter West

Cricinfo XI

Marking the moment in style

Collingwood's England-record 171st ODI cap produced a match-winning display. We look at other players who made their impact on a big occasion in style

David Boon celebrates after scoring a century

The List

The captain's right-hand men

Players who've served longest, and performed prolifically, in Tests and ODIs, under particular captains

Muttiah Muralitharan collected another five-wicket haul

Ask Steven

Seven tons in a Test, and Murali's travails

The most hundreds in a match, teams scoring 400 in both innings, and both wicketkeepers scoring centuries

Desmond Haynes clips a boundary to leg

All Today's Yesterdays

Des Handles

November 27: Desmond Haynes is given out handling the ball

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

All-time XI: South Africa

The dependables

Six contenders for South Africa's three middle-order spots - none of whom was in the habit of letting the side down. By Telford Vice

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

Opinion

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is all smiles as Gautam Gambhir raises his bat after reaching his century

Harsha Bhogle

How good is Gambhir?

Why the Indian opener is among the three best young batsmen in Test cricket today

Jim Laker in action

Rob Steen

Laker's 19 and Gregory's catches

Records that are vulnerable to the passage of time, and those that look safe forever

Andrew Strauss holds the Ashes urn under a shower of champagne

Guest Column

Reason against force in the free-to-air debate

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

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

20 Years of Tendulkar

Cricinfo celebrates two decades of the maestro

Bodyline

Bowl a fast one

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