Specials

    Cook-Strauss, and other durable openers

Numbers Game: A look at the long-term opening combinations and their partnership records in different regions

    India's road rage masks their inadequacy

Sharda Ugra: What would the reaction have been if all this bad behaviour had come from a team touring India instead?

    'T20 could be the lifeline, if played properly'

ESPNcricinfo Weekly: Sir Viv Richards on the proliferation of the 'fast food' version of the game

    Stop! My ears are bleeding

Christian Ryan: What's the purpose of cricket commentary? To entertain and enlighten or to exaggerate and aggravate?

    No light at the end of Sri Lanka's tunnel

As long as the country's cricket is in the hands of politicians and the self-serving, there is little hope for the team. By Hilal Suhaib

    The boys who believed

Though they were defending champions, Rajasthan couldn't have started the Ranji season any worse. Not that it mattered, since the end was perfect. By Nagraj Gollapudi