Unknown knowns at Limestone Exit

Dec 4, 2012: Ricky Ponting's departure can't have been the dream script people make it out to be, but at least he controlled his own destiny

1st Test

Australia v India in Australia, 2011-12

Oct 1, 2012: Wisden's review of the first Test, Australia v India in Australia, 2011-12

'Bryce-ee!'

Mar 29, 2012: McGain, he of one-Test fame, is well placed, perhaps, to see cricket's little disappointments for what they are

The Lendl of cricket coaching

Mar 22, 2012: Has cricket missed out an obvious candidate?

Eugenides and Adorno at the cricket

Mar 15, 2012: Is there any point in being sad about the Sheffield Shield's place in our culture today?

Sachin of Benalla

Mar 2, 2012: They say no one ever remembers how you leave cricket, that the memory of you at your peak is what's everlasting. Is that true?

That man's on the TV again

Feb 23, 2012: Television defines Ricky Ponting, but the more we see him on it, the less we know

Little wonder if even Brad has Haddin-uff of being Brad

Feb 16, 2012: Toughness and a lack of nervousness are key for a keeper. One suspects they aren't a vital part of Haddin's make-up

Goodbye, Laxman

Jan 31, 2012: For over a decade his best was saved for Australia, thrilling prime ministers and lesser folk - until this tour

A mind-blowing night in Hobart

Jan 26, 2012: What's the purpose of cricket commentary? To entertain and enlighten or to exaggerate and aggravate?

Prayer for a strong India

Jan 19, 2012: Lloyd's West Indians kept coming to Australia because they played good cricket and everyone made money from it. India and Australia keep playing because everyone makes money from it

Behind the Kohli face

Jan 10, 2012: We don't yet know what Virat Kohli will be, but he might have played the off-drive of the summer

Ponting's fine, Ponting's odd

Jan 2, 2012: In Melbourne he began both innings serenely, before losing form a bit. He now seems to need to think where once he barely had to

When's the first 500?

Dec 24, 2011: Eight years after he astonished Melbourne with 195 in a day, Sehwag is back. What will he produce this time?

There's something about Warner

Dec 16, 2011: From one-trick slog pony to Test cricketer - and, as always, the children knew first

The daredevil dead art

Dec 9, 2011: Do slow left-armers lack something other spinners have?

What I heard about the cricket

Dec 1, 2011: The season's begun in Australia, and there's plenty of talk about the game

Caught (Dropped!) In The Memory

Jan 7, 2011: So ends another Ashes summer

The Hangman’s Way

Jan 6, 2011: At six past midday on Wednesday, Alastair Cook got a ball that was neither wide nor full and he greeted it like a stork helping itself to water

Fawlty Hours

Jan 5, 2011: Let us begin by listing the signs of promising improvement seen in the Australian cricket team today

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