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ESPNcricinfo staff
31-Dec-2016
Hardik Pandya could not believe his luck when Bangladesh failed to get two runs off the last three balls against India in the World T20 - the tenth most followed match on this site last year • AFP
STORIES
News
2. Boisterous Bangladesh eye India heist (March 5)
3. Kohli, Gayle headline Wankhede big bash (March 30)
5. India-Bangladesh soap opera set for new season (February 23)
6. India, Pakistan meet in another one-off contest (February 26)
7. Rattled Bangladesh run into resurgent India (March 22)
8. Injury worries for Pakistan ahead of crucial NZ clash (March 21)
9. Knight Riders' experience v Daredevils' youth (April 9)
Features
1. Why Ramiz gets Bangladesh's goat (March 28)
By Jarrod Kimber
By Jarrod Kimber
2. A World Cup without Pakistan? (September 8)
By Tim Wigmore
By Tim Wigmore
3. West Indies' triumph of imagination and spirit (April 4)
By Mark Nicholas
By Mark Nicholas
4. 'Everyone cried in the dressing room' (September 6)
By Mohammad Isam and Umar Farooq
By Mohammad Isam and Umar Farooq
5. Why Kohli is a better leader than Smith (December 11)
By Ian Chappell
By Ian Chappell
6. Who will rain on Dhoni's parade? (March 3)
By Mark Nicholas
By Mark Nicholas
7. Ashwin v Herath v Yasir v Lyon (November 11)
By S Rajesh
By S Rajesh
8. How Rohit became a one-day monster (January 15)
By S Rajesh
By S Rajesh
9. Meet the Pandya brothers (April 8)
By Arun Venugopal
By Arun Venugopal
10. Kohli's and Rohit's divergent paths to batting glory (February 7)
By Ian Chappell
By Ian Chappell
Blogs
1. Will Cook break all of Tendulkar's Test records? (October 24)
By Kartikeya Date
By Kartikeya Date
2. Where Kohli is better than Tendulkar (March 22)
By Pranay Sanklecha
By Pranay Sanklecha
3. The problem with the PSL (February 21)
By Danyal Rasool
By Danyal Rasool
4. What the Afridi-Nazir partnership reveals about memory and Pakistan (March 8)
By Hassan Cheema
By Hassan Cheema
5. The Ashwin, Jadeja, Yadav stat you must tell everyone (December 1)
By Andy Zaltzman
By Andy Zaltzman
The Cricket Monthly
1. Practically magic (January 2016)
2. Chennai super king (December 2016)
By Karthik Krishnaswamy
By Karthik Krishnaswamy
3. The real Jadeja (February 2016)
By Sidharth Monga
By Sidharth Monga
4. Rahane sees the future (November 2016)
By Sidharth Monga
By Sidharth Monga
5. Inzi: a comedy (February 2016)
By Imran Yusuf
By Imran Yusuf
PLAYERS
1. Virat Kohli
2. Karun Nair
3. Jayant Yadav
6. MS Dhoni
7. R Ashwin
9. Rohit Sharma
10. Joe Root
MATCHES
1. India v England, fifth Test, Chennai, December 16-20
2. India v England, second Test, Visakhapatnam, November 17-21
3. India v England, first Test, Rajkot, November 9-13
4. Australia v India, fourth ODI, Canberra, January 20
5. India v England, third Test, Mohali, November 26-29
6. India v England, fourth Test, Mumbai, December 8-12
8. Australia v India, first ODI, Perth, January 12
9. India v New Zealand, first Test, Kanpur, September 22-26
10. India v Bangladesh, World T20, Bangalore, March 23