Top Performer

Jenny Thompson has this week's top performer - Ryan Sidebottom, who took eight wickets on his Test return

Andrew Miller has this week's top performer - Matt Prior, who cracked a hundred on Test debut

Jenny Thompson on Adam Gilchrist's smashing World Cup final

Top Performer: Andrew Hall would be the first to admit that there's much more to life than a century or a five-wicket haul

AB de Villiers could have been a household name in any sport and his innings in Grenada restored the faith of his seniors

Dileep Premachandran writes on the stunning comeback to form by Sanath Jayasuriya

Matthew Hayden has completed another remarkable renaissance

Paul Collingwood has just completed the journey of his life in Australia

The past week has been an important one for Brad Hodge

Brydon Coverdale on New Zealand's man of the moment, Jacob Oram

Osman Samiuddin on Mohammad Asif's emphatic return to the international fold

Top Performer: Ashwell Prince

Graeme Smith's decisive twin half-centuries at Cape Town were a welcome return to form and sealed a great Test series win for South Africa

Straight off the bat, this is not just about the runs he scored. This is about a man who came, saw and conquered - if only for the moment - the demons in his head, the ghosts in his past

Matthew Hoggard toiled for 42 overs in the first innings, uphill and into the wind for the most part, for the heroic figures of 7 for 109

In the haze of Australia's failure to enforce the follow-on in the first Test it was easy to lose sight of the brilliant quality of Ricky Ponting's batting

Jamie Alter on a sensational Brian Lara innings at Multan, one that changed the very complexion of the match and series

Osman Samiuddin on Umar Gul after he scripted Pakistan's win against West Indies at Lahore with a nine-wicket haul

Damien Martyn hardly ever looks ruffled. Not when arching his back leg to dissect two gullies or when sipping a freshly ordered coffee. Not even when answering his thousandth question about the 1993-94 SCG Test

Damien Martyn hardly ever looks ruffled. Not when arching his back leg to dissect two gullies or when sipping a freshly ordered coffee. Not even when answering his thousandth question about the 1993-94 SCG Test