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<title>What matters: leadership, data analysis, culture</title>
<description>Three factors that can play an important role in a team&#39;s success</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:11:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>It&#39;s not about selection or tactics, silly</title>
<description>Understanding causes is incredibly difficult. It is much easier to assume that easily discernible surface issues are the primary explanations for victory and defeat</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 02:54:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CMJ: broadcaster, writer, gentleman </title>
<description>Cricket&#39;s greatest friend combined courtesy with a strong sense of authenticity</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:10:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Why Cook&#39;s right for England</title>
<description>Or: the merits of long-term character over short-term flashiness</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:26:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>No easy answers to the question of Test cricket&#39;s future</title>
<description>There has been plenty of talk of how to save the game&#39;s premier form, but we&#39;re nowhere closer to a solution</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:01:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What can colonoscopies teach us about cricket?</title>
<description>The way we remember players&#39; careers affects our judgement of them</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:06:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Peaks or high plateaus: what makes a player great?</title>
<description>How do you measure success in sport? Is it about consistency or the ability to dazzle?</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:41:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The vexed task of managing player workloads</title>
<description>The row over rotation reveals several fault lines running through Australian cricket, and also within the professional game as a whole
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Should Tendulkar stay or go? The tough call may be the kindest</title>
<description>Conventional logic cannot be applied to players of his quality, but India will do its hero a disservice if it refuses to make a pragmatic decision</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:17:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The zone and the importance of imagination</title>
<description>A sportsman in the zone, like an artist, has both a wider and a narrower focus. He has the ability to be in the game and yet stand above it, seeing it clearly</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What made Ponting so tough?</title>
<description>His talent and ambition were polished and hardened by Australia&#39;s competitive cricket culture, and during his peak he was his team&#39;s biggest wicket</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:19:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The pragmatic art of Virender Sehwag</title>
<description>He has reached an understanding with his own flaws, refused to compromise his strengths, and stayed true to himself </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:28:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What will the BCCI do with all its power?</title>
<description>The Indian board must think about its responsibilities and legacy</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:23:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Is sport an art?</title>
<description>It may have more in common with craft, but it does also provide timeless stories and reveal elements of the human condition</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:07:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Are West Indies bound upwards at last?</title>
<description>Asking them to regain the heights of the 1980s would be too much, but they can still be a force in international competition</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:39:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How do you play cricket without becoming a machine?</title>
<description>The challenge for most cricketers- and other sportsmen - is to retain their personality while getting better at the game</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:25:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The art of captaincy: catching the mood of the moment</title>
<description>Leadership of cricket teams involves a fair amount of a sort of luck</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:17:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>South Africa&#39;s bookends rank them up with the best </title>
<description>They aren&#39;t just a decent side who managed to make it to No. 1</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:28:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The master of being himself</title>
<description>Andrew Strauss doesn&#39;t pose, shout, or try to shove all his players into one mould. Being his own man may just be his greatest virtue</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:23:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How did England go from great to godawful?</title>
<description>It&#39;s a disease that afflicts all teams these days - of too much cricket and too much travel</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:56:01 GMT</pubDate>
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