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Ask Steven >>
Most wickets on debut, and most runs conceded

The best Test records in India, unlucky 87, winning a Test with the least damage, and lots and lots of Jason Krejza

The Week That Was >>
You don't mess with Dhoni's fans

Trigger-happy supporters, eight-ball cricket, monster hits, and Yuvraj in a corset. By Siddarth Ravindran

Print Run >>
The g word

How does one define greatness in an innings? Let us count the ways. By Suresh Menon

Rewind to >>
Gandhi's Gleneagles stand-off

When England's tour of India was in danger of being cancelled, and a massive rift between white and black countries seemed on the cards

All Today's Yesterdays >>
A Bradmanesque year

November 18: The start of one of the most amazing runs in Test history

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The modest journeyman

Richard Thomas on a honest tale of a Welshman's cricket career via Swansea City football club

Quote Unquote

"Season after season, cricket fans turn on their radios and television sets and settle in for another summer of humiliation."

The Dominion Post on the masochism of New Zealand's cricket fans as they prepare to take on Australia

More quotes: 'I'm going to take Yuvraj out at the hotel tonight'

Specials

Interviews >>
'I'm in the team to bowl fast'
Brett Lee writes mushy ballads when he isn't playing, but on field he's just looking to let it rip - and he's learned to do it without going full throttle. "I'm in the team to bowl fast," he tells Peter English

Interviews >>
Ripe young age
England's most promising new fast bowler and lower-order batsman may only be 22 but he's a seasoned campaigner already . Nagraj Gollapudi meets Stuart Broad

Must-Read Books >>
The paradox of Sir Geoffrey
Leo McKinstry is broadly in the Boycott camp, but not so much that he fails to provide a balanced, nuanced view of one of cricket's most complex characters in his book Boycs: The True Story, writes Steven Lynch

Number Crunching

Did You Know?

No bowler has dismissed Don Bradman more times in Test cricket than the England and Yorkshire slow left-arm spinner Hedley Verity, who took the Don's wicket eight times.