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The Test player with 113 different team-mates

May 10, 2004: The regular Monday column in which our editor answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

ICC takes aim at easy targets

The wrong side of the fence

May 7, 2004: Steven Lynch on how the ICC has delivered stinging broadsides against two easy targets

Marylebone Cricket Club

Tom Graveney named as MCC president

May 6, 2004: The former England batsman Tom Graveney will be MCC's president in 2004-05

'The problem resides with the ICC'

England shouldn't tour Zimbabwe, says Tony Blair

May 5, 2004: Tony Blair, the British prime minister, has said that he does not want England's scheduled tour of Zimbabwe to go ahead

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Shahid Afridi's hundred, and Arthur Fagg's double

May 3, 2004: The regular Monday column in which our editor answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

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Most lbws in a match, and five-fors all in a row

Apr 26, 2004: The regular Monday column in which our editor answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

Willie Watson 1920-2004

Hero of the 1953 Lord's Test dies at 84

Apr 24, 2004: Willie Watson, the former Yorkshire and England batsman, has died at his home in Johannesburg at the age of 84

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That man Lara, and a different kind of triple hundred

Apr 19, 2004: The regular Monday column in which our editor answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

West Indies v England, 4th Test, Antigua, 5th day

Pluses, minuses and the odd record

Apr 14, 2004: The series snoozed to a close in Antigua today - an unremarkable ending to a remarkable rubber

West Indies v England, 4th Test, Antigua, 4th day

Pluses,

Apr 13, 2004: After the amazing scenes yesterday - Brian Lara reclaiming the world record, and the first prime minister on the field of play for, well, ten years - today it was back to a more recognisable form of Test cricket

West Indies v England, 4th Test, Antigua, 4th day

After the Lord Mayor's Show

Apr 13, 2004: After the amazing scenes yesterday - Brian Lara reclaiming the world record, and the first prime minister on the field of play for, well, ten years - today it was back to a more recognisable form of Test cricket

West Indies v England, 4th Test, Antigua, 3rd day

Lightning strikes twice for Lara

Apr 12, 2004: It's one of cricket's spookier stats that both the batsmen with two Test triple-centuries to their name strutted their stuff at the same ground each time - Don Bradman at Headingley, and Brian Lara at the Recreation Ground in St John's, Antigua

The progression of the record

The highest score in Test cricket

Apr 12, 2004: How the record for the highest score in Test cricket has changed hands over the years

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Out first ball of a Test, and reaching 300 with a six

Apr 12, 2004: The regular Monday column in which our editor answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

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Most Tests without an ODI, and Zaheer's road

Apr 5, 2004: The regular Monday column in which our editor answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

West Indies v England, 3rd Test, Barbados, 2nd day

Thorpe does it again

Apr 2, 2004: Fidel Edwards hit back for West Indies - biut was trumped by a magnificent innings from England's saviour Graham Thorpe

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Left-handers dominating, and a subbing double

Mar 29, 2004: The regular Monday column in which our editor answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

West Indies v England, 2nd Test, Trinidad, 5th day

England wrap it up in half-an-hour

Mar 23, 2004: It didn't take long: inside half-an-hour England had knocked off the 28 runs they needed to secure victory, a 2-0 series lead, and retention of the Wisden Trophy

New Zealand threaten cricket's world order

Watch out! The Kiwis are coming

Mar 22, 2004: Steven Lynch says that New Zealand are rapidly becoming a force in Test cricket

West Indies v England, 2nd Test, Trinidad, 4th day

Bad light holds up England's surge for victory

Mar 22, 2004: England galloped towards victory on the fourth evening at Port-of-Spain, knocking off 71 of the 99 runs they needed in just ten overs before the umpires stepped in and took the players off, even though the batsmen were keen to continue