Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Over the last three years everything New Zealand's captain has touched has turned to gold

Opposition captains always feared: what if Sehwag gets going? Everyone else just learned to accept that he would forever surprise

Back in 2000, he was at the centre of an image that has since become iconic for Indian fast bowling

As they say on Facebook, it's complicated

The one-dayer as a form has moved along lickety-split - thanks to the genius of players like Lloyd, Garner, Dean Jones, Jayasuriya, Saqlain and Miandad

There aren't any straightforward answers when it comes to comparing players across eras, but in this particular instance, there was near unanimity

World Cup memories are special. What do you remember of cricket's biggest tournament?  

But at your own peril. The inflection and delivery are spot on, the perspective maddening

Venkatesh Prasad dismisses Aamer Sohail as emotions run high in the India v Pakistan World Cup 1996 quarter-final

The Oxford has over a dozen entries for drift. It could have been invented for cricket

One of the greatest batsmen of our age stars in this issue. And one of the finest bowlers of a time gone by

Everybody has a Tendulkar story. Everybody has a hole inside them now that he has gone

Covering Tendulkar for 25 years has to be pretty eventful. Clayton Murzello recalls his days waiting at airports and chasing leads

Twenty-two years ago an Australian computer programmer pioneered online text commentary for cricket matches

His greatest contribution may be turning fans inured to close defeats and panicky collapses into a set that refuses to believe a game is lost as long as he stays in

A cricket geek tells of first coming across the site, going on to work for it, and going back to becoming an ordinary reader again

Hacks upset at not getting to cover anything sport-related

India has been mourning the death of Field Marshall Manekshaw, the hero of the 1971 Bangladesh war

Rahul Dravid, who symbolises everything precommercial cricket stood for, is reduced to one among many cricketer mercenaries who have joined the IPL, writes Nissim Mannathukkaren in the Tehelka magazine

Far from killing the five-day game, cricket’s newest format can have a positive impact on Test-match tactics and techniques, writes John Stern in the Sunday Times .