Calm Laxman defies spasms and past demons
A testing fifth-day pitch, an accurate rookie spinner, an old foe in Ajantha Mendis and a troublesome back were all thrown at VVS Laxman. Yet, he foun
Mine's a pint – or 72
To everyone else he was “the rat who joined the sinking ship” but to one impressionable teenager he was a six-foot-tall lamb in need of protecting Rob
Hero, headliner, heartthrob
Perhaps cricket’s first pin-up, Miller’s game was marked by flair, devil-may-care insouciance, and awareness always that it was all just a gameDavid F
The science of the big hit
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Guess who is ordinary now?
Even as wickets tumbled today it felt that something was missing, which would have made it a really satisfying day of watching for a cricket tragic. I
A little global village
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Tales of Raj
Dungarpur was highly opinionated, terribly impractical, a cricket romantic and Indian cricket’s unofficial ambassador. A pity his memoirs remain unwr
Bopara creates a momentum of his own
The momentum that carried Ravi Bopara to his second Test century was entirely unconnected to the fortunes (or lack thereof) of the England team – whic
Gayle heats up chilly Oval
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Hayden, Gilchrist, Warne, and little else
Seventeen games into the IPL, and the Australian influence in the tournament hasn’t been a whole lotCricinfo staff29-Apr-2009Matthew Hayden has been i