George Binoy

Quintessential Bangalore rain - rarely heavy but frustratingly incessant - did not allow the game between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings to start

Tillakaratne Dilshan and AB de Villiers helped Royal Challengers Bangalore overcome a major disruption to their plans and secure their fourth win of the season

The Deccan Chargers bowlers strived to earn their side a maiden victory in this season of the IPL but, even on a slow pitch that turned, they did not have enough runs to defend

Royal Challengers Bangalore were without their talisman Chris Gayle, who had an injured groin, but four other overseas players performed roles expected of them to give the campaign a successful start

The owners of Pune Warriors India, who had threatened to pull out of the IPL, watched their team cause an upset in front of a packed Wankhede Stadium

Vernon Philander took his first 50 wickets in seven Tests. Sydney Barnes and Muttiah Muralitharan took batches of 50 in fewer games

Bowlers with the worst averages in their last few innings. Like RP Singh, who hasn't taken a Test wicket since 2008

Ricky Ponting scored 18 runs at 3.60 in his last five ODI innings. There aren't many who have done worse than that

ESPNcricinfo previews the second Twenty20 international between New Zealand and South Africa at Seddon Park

Batsmen who made several hundreds in one format, before making one in another

Teams that won all their matches in a series, and then lost all in the next one

Lalit Modi has said that the sale of Andrew Flintoff to the Chennai Super Kings during the 2009 player auction was rigged and that he "should have not allowed that to happen"

On January 28, there was a glut of wickets in three Tests being played in Adelaide, Abu Dhabi and Napier. We look at more such days, filled with wickets and runs

Players whose captaincy tenures were broken up into the most pieces, like that of Javed Miandad, who was appointed Pakistan's captain on six separate occasions

Captains with the largest difference between win percentages in home and away games

Michael Clarke's 329 was a 161-run improvement on his best Test score. A look at other batsmen who had a large difference between their highest and second-highest scores

Most players used by a team in a year, in each format and across all internationals

Teams that opened with the same batsmen for the most consecutive innings

Plays of the Day from the fourth ODI between India and West Indies in Indore

Virender Sehwag's record-breaking performance led India to 418 for 5, their highest ODI total, and sealed victory in the five-match series against West Indies