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The Ganguly story in numbers (10 October 09:30) |
| At the end of his career, the stats indicate Sourav Ganguly has largely fulfilled his potential: he is among the very best ODI players, and though his Test record isn't as glittering, it's s... |
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Simple man, simple plan (10 October 09:30) |
| England's new captain may not be too experienced, but no one could be more up for the job. "I'm so, so driven," he tells Will Luke. |
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The flight of Icarus (10 October 09:30) |
| John Morris looks back on the joyride in a Tiger Moth that ended his international career. |
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On the spin cycle (09 October 09:30) |
| Australia enter their series against India with a choice between two untried spinners, Jason Krejza and Cameron White. We look back at 11 other spinners who were thrust abruptly onto the int... |
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'I'm here to lead by example' (09 October 09:30) |
| Back after yet another hiatus, Zaheer Khan is a more self-aware bowler these days, more in charge of both his body and his game. And he's enjoying the role of mentor to the younger bowlers i... |
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It takes two (08 October 09:30) |
| Two men, both of whom have been at their peak in India-Australia contests, are going to be vital again. If both prosper, it will set the series up. |
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Another mess of its own making (08 October 07:30) |
| Martin Williamson on why heads must roll after yet another spectacular foul-up by the West Indies Cricket Boardrd. |
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The prince with the common touch (08 October 09:30) |
| His critics may have dismissed him as a stuck-up aristocrat, but Ganguly had nothing if not the skills to identify with those he led and pull them together. |
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Senior citizens who held their own (08 October 09:30) |
| India's senior players are in the spotlight in the series against Australia. We look at batsmen who've scored the most runs and bowlers who've taken the most wickets after passing a certain ... |
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Lots of ODIs but no Tests, and the oldest one-day players (07 October 09:30) |
| ODI stalwarts who never played a Test, the manager of South Africa's fractious 1960 tour of England, the man who bowled more than ten overs in an ODI, and the writer of Back to Bay 13. |
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A strange and sublime rivalry (07 October 09:30) |
| How does India, a team that has never consistently staked a claim to No. 2, repeatedly manage to look the mighty Australians in the eye and not flinch? Sidharth Monga looks at the making of ... |
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The vicar's son, the rebel and the poet (07 October 09:30) |
| John Snow's style and charisma were natural and irresistible to a young Alan Lee in Hove in the 1960s. Snow was a bit more exciting than those around him - too exciting, as it turned out, fo... |
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Athers, Sunny and I (07 October 09:30) |
| An opener on his inspirations. |
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Baseball, golf and a little bit of cricket (07 October 05:30) |
| Baseball comes to Somerset, Vaughan picks up his clubs, Warne names his top 100, Krejza has his past dug up, and Shoaib does a Shoaib. |
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Fast men on slow tracks (07 October 05:30) |
| Being a fast bowler on tour in India may seem like a mug's game, but if you play it smart there will be rewards. Nagraj Gollapudi talks to a few experts on what the Australian quick men will... |
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Turning back the clock, affordably (06 October 05:30) |
| Well-produced, pocket-friendly reprints of a couple of 1920s Wisdens as well as the first edition of the Green Lilly. |
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Nice to be here (05 October 09:30) |
| From hardship posting to number one destination, India has come a long way in the Australian players' regard. |
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My friend the bookseller (05 October 09:30) |
| Thirty-five years ago John McKenzie opened a bookshop in Surrey that has since grown to be a mecca for collectors of cricket titles. Suresh Menon recalls an association that began with a spi... |
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Australians get stoned (04 October 09:30) |
| Martin Williamson looks back on the tempestuous end to Australia's wretched tour of Pakistan in 1982-83. |
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'Aura lasts 20 minutes, then reality sets in' (04 October 09:30) |
| Has Australia's image of invincibility been dented in recent months in the wake of the retirements of key players? We asked two men who helped build the machine, John Buchanan and Matthew Ha... |
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Caribbean context (04 October 09:30) |
| More searching than former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley's A History of West Indies Cricket - Manley is the friend to whose memory these volumes are dedicated - sport's least likely... |
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Goodbye Gogga (03 October 05:30) |
| Paul Adams didn't last as long as he should have, but he usually burned bright when he played. Neil Manthorp doffs the hat. |
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Elegy for the long player (03 October 09:30) |
| India's big five battle on because that's what they do best. They play because they love the competition. We can't expect them to suddenly stop believing and switch off. |
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Overseas spinners and their woes in India (03 October 09:30) |
| Indian tracks are known to aid spin, but visiting slow bowlers have struggled to turn on the magic over the last two decades. Even star acts like Shane Warne and Daniel Vettori have poor num... |
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Rules to move (03 October 09:30) |
| The issue of player transfers in the IPL is due to become a hot button soon. A look at why a well-defined legal framework needs to be in place for it. |
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Court to rule if Stanford game can proceed (02 October 11:30) |
| Martin Williamson previews the hearing in London which will decide whether then Stanford 20/20 for 20 will go ahead . |
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Many questions, no answers (02 October 11:30) |
| The new panel selectors had a lot of explaining to do - the inclusion of Sourav Ganguly, what their overall selection policy is, the summoning of Amit Mishra from the cold - but there was no... |
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Picking up the pieces (02 October 09:30) |
| Bangladesh, already struggling to be competitive at the top level, have now been left trying to scrape together a team to face New Zealand after a host of players left to join the ICL. Crici... |
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'Players are being drawn into management too much' (02 October 09:30) |
| The New Zealand selector and A team manager talks to Kanishkaa Balachandran about the tough times facing cricket in his country, and looks back at his stint as national coach in the mid-1990... |
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Pup's a brand new dog (01 October 09:30) |
| Over his four years in Test cricket Michael Clarke has reined in his youthful exuberance, sought understanding and refined his game. Now he's back at Bangalore where it all began. |
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Nomads with pads (01 October 09:30) |
| Which players have batted at the most positions in Tests and one-day internationals? And which ones have scored fifties and hundreds at the greatest range of spots in the batting order?. |
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'We're riding the crest of a cricket revolution' (01 October 09:30) |
| There is a significance to Derek Underwood's succession to MCC president that reflects the new niche that the world's oldest cricket club is carving for itself. "We are all businesspeople, a... |
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Who after Ganguly? (30 September 11:30) |
| The fact that there isn't an unanimous choice for the No. 6 spot in India's Test XI points to one thing: the talk of a voluntary retirement scheme for the senior players is premature still. |
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A brace of 99s, and Sir Donald's ducks (30 September 09:30) |
| Missing hundred by one run twice, Bradman's zeroes, youngest and oldest centurions, Tests in Sharjah, Australian New Zealanders, and the best bowling performances to lose a Test. |
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Miles to go before they sleep (30 September 09:30) |
| Three years ago the Indian board put down its objectives in a vision document. How many of those promises has it fulfilled? Ajay Shankar, Sidharth Monga and Sriram Veera investigate. |
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The wise old patriarch (30 September 09:30) |
| Andy Flower on Nelson Mandela, the senior statesman who has all the qualities a great leader needs. |
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Punter's frontier (29 September 09:00) |
| In coming to India, Ponting is not simply on a mission to improve his abominable record there; he will be hoping to shape the game's future in the country destined to determine it. |
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Old boys volunteer, new guns wanted (29 September 09:00) |
| Fifty-nine hours of non-stop cricket, home cheerleaders for the ICL, Bradman's bat breaks a record, Kapil pulls rank, and Ramps strips for a cause. |
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Too tough to call (28 September 09:00) |
| Australia are now more beatable than they have been in recent times; India's batting superiority is fading fast. It should make for a hard-fought tour . |
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Coming to the party (28 September 09:00) |
| A readable - if slightly pointless - jaunt round the cricket world by one of the game's leading younger writers. |
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The raining champions (27 September 09:00) |
| On the last day of what has, until the last fortnight, been a wretchedly wet domestic season, Martin Williamson looks back to a year when the weather robbed Hampshire of the Championship. |
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The anti-romantic movement (27 September 09:00) |
| Cardus and other sacred cows of cricket need to be reassessed. In an attempt to separate reality from myth, Derek Birley ruthlessly questions, if not busts outright, many such idyllic belief... |
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Ponting's shot at redemption, and Hayden's rare feat (26 September 09:30) |
| Australia's captain has a poor record in India - the only blotch in an otherwise spectacular career - but there's enough reason to suggest he could turn things around this time. |
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Top of the class (25 September 09:00) |
| Andrew McGlashan picks a team of the top performers from this year's English county season. |
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Geek god (25 September 09:00) |
| He knows exactly when his batting averaged dipped below his dad's, he knows he is England's 638th Test player, and he can swing the ball pretty fast and accurately as well. |
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Shoe byte (25 September 09:00) |
| When Sir Garry Sobers helped a young Indian lad kickstart his career. |
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Strike force (24 September 01:30) |
| In last week's List, we dug up bowlers who had taken at least a wicket in every Test they played. Since then, we received a few emails asking for the one-day international equivalent and so ... |
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Among the wickets every time (24 September 09:00) |
| In last week's List, we dug up bowlers who had taken a wicket in every Test they played. Since then, we received a few emails asking for the one-day international equivalent and so we've giv... |
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'You need to feel bad when you don't get picked' (24 September 09:00) |
| Despite his golden domestic season last year, Aakash Chopra has had to, yet again, shrug off the disappointment of not being picked for the India side. "I've made my peace," he tells Nagraj ... |
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The highest score to lose, and the Test player from St Kitts (23 September 09:30) |
| Many solos from losing sides in Adelaide, the most prolific batsmen against India, and the same man dismissed twice in a hat-trick, the youngest man to play for West Indies, and Hong Kong's ... |
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