Numbers Game

A year for lower-order batting heroics

Jul 18, 2014: Lower-order partnership stats have remained remarkably constant over the last five decades, but there's been a huge leap in the first seven months of 2014

There's more grey to chucking than we might think

Jun 12, 2014: The drive to purge the game of bowlers with suspect actions may have been suppressed a little but the moralising remains

'If you allow yourself to relax, you'll be swept away'

May 30, 2014: Pakistan offspinner Saeed Ajmal talks about how he learnt to bowl to the doosra, being robbed of Tendulkar's wicket in Mohali, and his career highs and lows

The boys from St Lucia, and captains' ten-fors

May 20, 2014: Also, losing a T20 without losing a wicket, biggest difference between scores in an innings, keepers without dismissals, and bowlers without wickets

The lightweights

May 19, 2014: Cricketers who didn't trouble the weighing machine

Pakistan cricket

A welcome return for one who left too soon

May 6, 2014: Waqar Younis' last term as coach saw Pakistan rise in the international arena. Now he returns to take charge of a side filled with talented young batsmen but one facing a decline in fast bowling stocks

The others

May 5, 2014: Cricketers who were overshadowed by their more famous relatives on the field

Can we do something about monster bats?

Apr 25, 2014: Modern bats are getting chunkier by the day, while not getting much more heavy. This gives batsmen an unfair advantage

All change in Pakistan's domestic structure. Again

Apr 24, 2014: Change has been the only constant in the country's first-class system. And a recent set of proposals - worthy as they sound - only serve to reinforce that

UAE cricket

The other T20 league in Dubai

Apr 20, 2014: Teams with Indian connections, a large presence of Pakistan players and a sprinkling of overseas cricketers make Dubai's Superstars Twenty20 tournament an interesting premise

Test cricket needs fewer teams, not more

Apr 20, 2014: Having the top Associate team play the lowest-ranked Test side without the threat of relegation shows how votes mean more to the ICC than results

Haroon Rasheed

Impressing Viv and Greg

Apr 17, 2014: Former Pakistan batsman Haroon Rasheed on the compliments he received from two batting legends, and his admiration for Gavaskar

Still plenty of ifs for Butt

Apr 16, 2014: Salman Butt appears to think that redemption will be his by insisting that players should refrain from "wrongdoing". That shouldn't gain him back the trust of those he duped

'I love to take batsmen on'

Apr 12, 2014: Wahab Riaz, the Pakistan left-arm quick, on the pain of missing out on a ten-for, and his love for numbers and batting

Are you sitting down for this?

Apr 7, 2014: Netherlands beat England last month. A look at some other big international upsets over the years

The World T20 roller coaster

Apr 2, 2014: Tantalising finishes, technicolor extravaganzas, and sport as opera - notes from an armchair

Pakistan v WI, World T20, Group 2, Mirpur

The Afridi-Gul synchronised double slide

Apr 1, 2014: Plays of the day for the World T20 match between Pakistan and West Indies in Mirpur

Why Pakistan must change to fit Akmal

Apr 1, 2014: They have long mistaken his fearlessness for irresponsibility and clipped his wings. But he can't be denied for long

Bangladesh v Pakistan, World T20, Group 2, Mirpur

Heartache in Dhaka

Mar 31, 2014: Flying halfway across the world to watch Bangladesh play? It can be painful

Bangladesh v Pakistan, World T20, Group 2, Mirpur

The Mirpur crowd's twin faces

Mar 30, 2014: ESPNcricinfo picks out the plays of the day from the World T20 match between Bangladesh and Pakistan