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Andrew Hughes: We know they can turn triumph into disaster. Will they step up to the occasion now?
Devil to stop accepting souls sold at IPL auctions
R Rajkumar: Hell no longer has a place for those who play in the world's shiniest T20 league
Sidin Vadukut has a comprehensive guide for England's batsmen

English cricket: the psychoanalyst's version
English cricket gets on the couch with a famous Austrian doctor. By Imran Yusuf
The peril of premature laurel-resting
Andrew Hughes on the peril of premature laurel-resting
Pietersen's compelling mastery and idiocy
Andy Zaltzman has set up an offshore rig in Abu Dhabi to drill up stats, just for you


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Wait, how many degrees does Saeed Ajmal's elbow flex again? And does that make him the reincarnation of Plastic Man? Oh wait, it's eight. No, it's 15. No, it's a problem with English not being his first language. His action's legit, it's not, it's hours of fun for everyone.
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What do you call it when you pull strings to make sure you're able to get the English allrounder of your dreams for your IPL team by paying over a million and a half dollars, and he plays three matches making not very many runs and taking not very many wickets? Karma?
Songs, books, movies about cricketers
"Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting"
Sahara to talk to the BCCI on the weekend? Turn this one by The Who up loud in tribute
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The pick of the cricket headlines
Even a Tweet like KP may agree that it's tricky to stay top of the tree
The Independent can't quite contain its mirth about Kevin Pietersen being on Twitter
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Our cricket cliche counter
The big three
Any relation to the three Ws? In batting finesse, yes
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Sahara
Who managed to get a degree in political science while caring for Indian cricket
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"No prize for guessing what is common between Akmal, Sharapova and Azarenka"
Priyank introduces the members of Screamers United
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Commentary gems relived
"It's not funny when you're hit on the hot spot."
The charming and erudite Ravi Shastri finds a way of explaining to the entire family that getting a ball in the crotch is - contrary to what we all thought - not amusing
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India finally won a match in Australia. You are:
Look who's endorsing us
"Page 2 is such stuff as nightmares are made on; and our little life
is rounded with a screaming in our sleep"
Illustration: Satish Acharya














