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The art of multiple slower balls

One is hardly enough anymore, you need about 27, Alex Bowden finds at a special workshop

Modi in ball-snatching shocker

Why the IPL's decision to use pink balls is a dastardly copyright infringement. By Andrew Hughes

Girl trouble

Why cricketers don't get the chicks. By Andrew Fernando

Eddo sees red

Eddo Brandes used to farm chickens. Then tomatoes took his fancy

Why is India's world-beating No. 3 forever the man behind the man? By Jarrod Kimber

Alan Tyers looks on as England and South Africa's walking wounded unite in hospital

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Umar Gul

Gave Bapu Nadkarni a minor scare, bowling seven maidens in a row against New Zealand in Dunedin. He had figures of 8-7-1-0 at one point. How is metronome spelled again?

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Muttiah Muralitharan

The original Ebenezer Scrooge couldn't bowl one maiden in 37 overs during the Great Indian Run Robbery in the first innings in Kanpur. The first time he has bowled more than 12 overs without a maiden.

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Five Firsts

A stand with Vaasy

Sri Lanka's keeper, Prasanna Jayawardene, on meeting a hero, partnering a stalwart and making the grade

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Wack Stat

Number of trouble-free days that go by between controversies involving Jesse Ryder. Corresponding number for Andrew Symonds: 18; and Shoaib Akhtar: 14.4

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