Robin Jackman picks his South African XI of the 1980s

There's something charming about his disregard for the conventions of batsmanship and impressive about how unconcerned he is with everything other than the next ball

There's something charming about his disregard for the conventions of batsmanship and impressive about how unconcerned he is with everything other than the next ball

A few days ago I was at morning cricket nets at the Oval Maidan in Bombay, a weekly affair where we exercise our two-bit skills with high seriousness and fidelity to ritual

A great many batting artists of our age - Virender Sehwag, Damien Martyn, VVS Laxman - bat in a way that makes us admire the work of their hands rather than their feet

Ramesh Powar is that rare thing: the genuinely slow bowler, someone whose bowling never quite "arrives"

A striking feature of India's cricket this season is the difference between the look of the team in one-day cricket and that in Tests

Some questions in cricket are subjective, allowing for perfectly good arguments both sides, such as whether Bradman’s Invincibles were a greater team than Steve Waugh's side, or whether Sunil Gavaskar possessed a better defensive technique than

A kind of planned progress, a gradual fitting together of the parts, has led to a visible improvement in the playing standard of the Indian Test team since 2002

Bob Woolmer spoke to Chandrahas Choudhury back in August 2004 in an interview for Wisden Asia Cricket

Virender Sehwag looks back at his century and a half against Australia in Chennai, 2004

Jacques Rudolph's seven-hour hundred on the last day of the Perth Test was not only one of the great match-saving innings of the last decade; it also showed that, no matter how fast and attack-minded Test cricket becomes, there will always be a place in t

They hardly ever faced a ball they didn't want to hit into the top tier. Chandrahas Choudhury rounds up 11 of cricket's greatest six-hitters of all time

New Zealand made good progress towards victory on the second day of the Chittagong Test,

Stephen Fleming scored a commanding unbeaten 137 to take his team to 338 for 3 on the first day of the second Test at Chittagong

After New Zealand avoided the follow-on India faced a battle against time in the first Test at Ahmedabad

A fine unbroken partnership of 103 between Craig McMillan and Nathan Astle rescued New Zealand on the last day of the Ahmedabad Test

An accomplished allround performance by Shoaib Malik, and a hundred of faultless grace and measured intent by Yousuf Youhana, brought Pakistan their third straight victory in the Paktel Cup against Sri Lanka

An accomplished allround performance by Shoaib Malik, and a hundred of faultless grace and measured intent by Yousuf Youhana, brought Pakistan their third straight victory in the Paktel Cup, against Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka made short work of Zimbabwe in the first encounter between the two sides in the Paktel Cup, finishing the match off in less than 52 overs, just over half the scheduled amount