Sehwag’s own improbable accomplishment richly deserves to be remembered for years, even decades, to come, as one of the most memorable and invigorating individual efforts in the annals of any team sport

It is one of professional boxing’s few saving graces that commentators still attempt to identify the world’s best “pound-for-pound” pugilist, for all that proving as much is impossible

Bar Bradman, Allen and Warner, Gubby and Plum, have long been the most sacred of cricket’s ancient cows

Innumerable words, dispassionate and rabid alike, have been, and will continue to be, expended trying to get to the root of the collective hard-drive failure currently afflicting England’s premier national sporting teams (and yes, I am wilfully

With baseball belatedly joining in last year, cricket and American football remain the only major team sports without a world crown worthy of the name

“There can be no normal sport in an abnormal society.” Thus was the stance of the South African Cricket Board during Apartheid

If Packer can be regarded as a Marconi, Preity Zinta, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Bollywooders fronting those eight IPL consortia are equivalent to the backers of pirate radio

Ed Smith’s newie, What Sport Tells Us About Life , is not just the best book by a Middlesex captain since Mike Brearley’s The Art of Captaincy a couple of decades ago

Had RP been fit to bowl the 23 overs sent down by Tendulkar, Sehwag and Ganguly, in addition to the four to which he was confined, his strike-rate suggests he might have taken three wickets

I was off my game, mate

At the height of it all, some Pommie journo living here wrote a column calling for Ponting’s resignation, for the way his team’s behaviour had shamed the country and undermined the spirit of the game, which in turn led to a two-year investigation of

It cannot be said that Symonds is widely characterised by his pigmentation

"It's difficult to compare them," Peter Moores admitted four years ago, then did just that with consummate ease

Not only is Michael Vaughan showing signs of re-scaling the heights of 2002; he is also beginning to come to terms with what so many assume to be the toughest job in sport: captaining a cricket team

There is, however, one department of expertise for which claiming that we’ve never had it so good is entirely justifiable, incontrovertibly so

Surely the third umpire, the grandly-monikered Tyron Hirantha Wijewardene, should have been in a position to pick up his walkie-talkie and gently alert Asad Rauf to the bat’s involvement before he made a fool of himself

We Hebrews have a word for such occasions: mazeltov

David/Dai, it will be on your watch, in 2009, that the ICC celebrates its centenary

So the Indian board have backed Cricket Australia’s decision to charge agencies for the privilege of reporting matches, have they

To retain credibility, professional sport, its practitioners and audience, deserve as much justice as is humanly possible