Features

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
Why cricketers don't get the chicks. By Andrew Fernando
Eddo Brandes used to farm chickens. Then tomatoes took his fancy
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Hero Worship

Bedi on Sobers, Sehwag on Tendulkar - players talk about their heroes
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The Confectionery Stall

Andy Zaltzman returns, and hurriedly catches up on all the action he missed
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Quick Singles

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The Index

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Once Upon An Anecdote

Marcus Trescothick on the not-so-fine day when Mushtaq Ahmed was left out in the rain
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The Long Handle

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

