Monty's haul, and keeper-captains

May 21, 2013: Also: most Tests at Lord's, the Don's drop, Olympic gold stadium, and Mandela the cricketer

An un-watchful nightwatchman, and big losers

May 14, 2013: Also: best figures and a pair, most no-balls in a Test, keeper's catches, and when WG graced Trent Bridge

Name-dropped by Wisden

May 13, 2013: People who have made unexpected appearances in the cricket bible

Two successive triples, and a losing double

May 7, 2013: Also: 40-year-old Indian Test players, Victor Eberle's costly drop, dismissed by the same bowler, and twice dismissed in a hat-trick

Watching Warnie

May 2, 2013: Looking on as the world's greatest legspinner strutted his stuff was quite the education for a lesser-accomplished member of the breed

Grandfathers, bunnies, and old-timers

Apr 30, 2013: Also: cheapest four-fors, Queenstown captains, and Zimbabwe's Test wins

Who'd have thunk it?

Apr 29, 2013: Some Test series that didn't end up quite as they were expected to

The quickest thousands, and the fastest collapses

Apr 23, 2013: Also: Zimbabweans with two hundreds in a Test, longest wait between Test and one-day debuts, most wickets in the IPL, and Bradman's stats

Most T20 hundreds, and most runs in a session

Apr 16, 2013: Also: most catches in a calendar year, longest wait for maiden Test wicket, most runs without being dismissed, and more on the worst bowling averages

That can't be legal

Apr 15, 2013: Cricketers who have - by accident or design - led to changes in the Laws

Fulton's two, and Gavaskar's pile

Apr 9, 2013: Also: most balls taken to score a run, first Test on a Sunday, innings with no double figures, and the worst bowling averages

Way Back When

Barber's brilliant batting

Apr 4, 2013: Nearly forty years before Sehwag almost blazed to a double-century in a day, an English batsman set the template

The mystery of the missing batsman

Apr 2, 2013: Also: lowest total in an innings win, most first-class runs in a season, whitewashing Australia, and the first umpire to stand in all ten countries

You shall not pass

Apr 1, 2013: England's great escape in Auckland was the 21st time a Test ended with a team nine wickets down in the fourth innings. Here are 11 such cliffhangers

Debut stands, Patto's improvement

Mar 26, 2013: Also: old Indian debutants, fastest to 100 ODI wickets, most runs against Australia, and a quiz question

Eight tons, and Compton centuries

Mar 19, 2013: Also: Ceylonese players, starting with sixes, highest partnerships in a Test, and the longest streaks of not-outs

You're fired

Mar 18, 2013: Australia recently dropped four players for failing to fill in a report. Here are more strange reasons for missing a Test or leaving a tour

Way Back When

Runs in the family

Mar 16, 2013: Hamish Rutherford's memorable debut takes the mind back to his father's, and those from other cricketing dynasties in New Zealand

Clarke's closure, and Amarnath's strange double

Mar 12, 2013: Also: most wickets after 14 Tests, fastest to 1000 runs, biggest innings lead in defeat, and Lock and Laker's records

Seven men bowled, and Yousuf's purple patch

Mar 5, 2013: Also: most economical figures in ODIs and T20s, stumped in the first over of a Test, 100 wickets at a venue, and longest wait to complete a hat-trick

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