Anil's top 10

Fast and fiery Frederick

A verdict on spot-fixing

An all-too-brief star

Trouble in paradise

Hadlee's slow start

The birth of Biff

Nailbiter in Chennai

Curtly's seventh heaven

The pitch at Sabina Park after the abandonment of the first Test

A Sabina Park farce

Monty Noble

January 28 down the years

Monty comes around

Daniel Vettori was called in to bowl first change

January 27 down the years

Hello, Harry Potter

Courtney Walsh celebrates Craig McDermott's wicket

The closest Test of all

Mark Waugh - Portrait October 2001

January 25 down the years

Junior makes his mark

Neil Harvey

January 24 down the years

Patience is a virtue

Hanif Mohammad walks back after his epic 337

January 23 down the years

Glued to the wicket

Barry Richards

January 22 down the years

Brief but brutal

David Gower and John Morris pose in a Tiger Moth

January 21 down the years

Flight of fancy

Paul Adams

Frog in a blender

Arthur Morris - Portrait

January 19 down the years

An Invincible arrives

Hansie Cronje takes his oath in front of the King Commisson

January 18 down the years

Cronje's gamble

Clyde Walcott

January 17 down the years

The third of three

Bert Oldfield reels away after being struck by Harold Larwood

January 16 down the years

The battle of Adelaide

Bill Woodfull is struck under the heart by Harold Larwood (close up)

January 14 down the years

Just not cricket

John Snow bowls

January 13 down the years

Quick, quick Snow

Richie Richardson

January 12 down the years

Captain calypso

Rahul Dravid walks back to a rousing ovation, undefeated in his lone battle

January 11 down the years

The Wall

Victor Trumper

January 10 down the years

Trumper's solo onslaught

Jimmy Adams, thumbnail portrait

January 9 down the years

The perils of captaincy

Johnny Wardle

Mr Versatility

Imran Khan bowls

January 7 down the years

The end of an era

Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh during practice

Ugliness at the SCG

Nawab of Pataudi Jnr - Mansur Ali Khan

Birth of a one-eyed Tiger

Ernie Jones in 1899

The story of Jonah

Everton Weekes, player portrait

January 3 down the years

Five-ton Weekes

Don Bradman plays and misses during his innings of 138

January 2 down the years

Something special

Mayhem in Queenstown

Peter May

December 31 down the years

Peter definitely could

Ian Botham enters the pavilion with a stump as a souvenir

December 30 down the years

A Boy's Own ending

Graeme Swann leads his England team-mates in the

December 29 down the years

The rarest of rare feats

Sunil Gavaskar

December 28 down the years

Sunny's delight

David Shepherd before his final international appearance

December 27 down the years

A hop, skip and a jump

Rohan Kanhai

December 26 down the years

A flashing blade

Clarrie Grimmett

December 25 down the years

A Christmas gnome

Colin Cowdrey

A gentle giant

Geoff Boycott flicks the ball on his way to 260

December 23 down the years

The great accumulator

Faf du Plessis and Morne Morkel walk off after saving the Test

December 22 down the years

A draw for the ages

Hanif Mohammad

December 21 down the years

A limpet at the crease

Front-on profile of Bill O'Reilly bowling

December 20 down the years

Tiger, tiger, bowling spin

Ricky Ponting in his farewell Test

December 19 down the years

Punter comes knocking

Bill Ponsford

December 18 down the years

Ponsford's purple patch

It was another tough post-match debriefing for Alastair Cook

History in Nagpur

Jack Hobbs

December 16 down the years

The birth of the Master

Carl Hooper seems to be finalising his battle-plans

December 15 down the years

Caribbean cool

The final play of the first Tied Test

December 14 down the years

The greatest Test of all

R.C.Fredericks

December 13 down the years

Fredericks flays the Aussies

Yuvraj Singh's half-century kept India in the hunt of their target

December 12 down the years

A prince arrives

Graham Thorpe and Nasser Hussain celebrate England's win

December 11 down the years

Dancing in the dark

Trevor Bailey

December 10 down the years

Test cricket's slowest half-century

Gubby Allen in his delivery stride

December 9 down the years

Australia humbled

Andrew Flintoff poses with his opponent ahead of his debut bout as a boxer

December 6 down the years

England's flawed hero

Merv Hughes gives Graeme Hick a warm send-off

December 5 down the years

Hat-trick hero

Mark Boucher warms up for the fourth ODI at Lord's

December 3 down the years

Wicketkeeper's day out

Douglas Jardine

December 2 down the years

Bodyline's quiet beginning

Don Bradman plays and misses during his innings of 138

November 30 down the years

The Don's uninspiring debut

Younis Khan signals his 150

November 29 down the years

A Colombo party for New Zealand

Keith Miller

November 28 down the years

The Australian in excelsis

Anil Kumble waves to his fans

November 27 down the years

Des handles

Kim Hughes discusses tactics with Mike Whitney

November 26 down the years

Hughes boohoos

Imran Khan shines the ball

November 25 down the years

The tiger king

Ian Botham enters the pavilion with a stump as a souvenir

November 24 down the years

A Beefy birthday

Sachin Tendulkar celebrates a wicket

November 20 down the years

The 30,000-run barrier

Sarfraz Nawaz in the Pakistan nets

November 19 down the years

Pakistan beat India

Composite: Andy Flower and Randy Orton

November 18 down the years

A Bradmanesque year

Bert Sutcliffe on the attack

November 17 down the years

The left-hander who never won

Waqar Younis ; bowling thumbnail 2001

November 16 down the years

The king of swing

Sachin Tendulkar celebrates a wicket

November 15 down the years

Two legends make their entrance

Adam Gilchrist acknowledges the crowd after scoring the fastest 200 in Test cricket

November 14 down the years

An Aussie destroyer

Shane Warne celebrates one of his eight second-inning wickets

November 13 down the years

Shane the avenger

Dudley Nourse bats

November 12 down the years

Birth of the defiant Dudley

Roy Fredericks comes in for a break at tea

November 11 down the years

Fearless Freddo

Bangladeshi batsman Aminul Islam sweeps a ball as Sangakkara looks on

November 10 down the years

Welcome to the party

Sir Richard Hadlee

November 9 down the years

Hadlee's nine-for

Allan Border holds the World Cup aloft

November 8 down the years

Reversing the tide

Syed Kirmani poses for a photo

November 7 down the years

India break their Australian duck

Michael Slater square cuts through point

November 6 down the years

Crash, bang, wallop

Virat Kohli addresses a press conference in Dhaka

November 5 down the years

The brash golden boy

Rod Marsh portrait

November 4 down the years

Golden gloves

Salman Butt leaves Southwark Crown Court after being found guilty of cheating and accepting corrupt payments

November 3 down the years

Three cricketers go to prison

Victor Trumper

November 2 down the years

Never another like Victor

VVS Laxman has a laugh during a training session

November 1 down the years

Australia's nemesis

Javed Miandad

October 31 down the years

Hit the ground running

Courtney Walsh bowls

October 30 down the years

Happy birthday, Courtney

Wilfred Rhodes: 'Yorkshire cricket personified'

October 29 down the years

England's greatest allrounder

Abdul Qadir

October 28 down the years

53 all out

Kumar Sangakkara brings up his ninth double-century

October 27 down the years

The arrival of Sanga

Fazal Mahmood takes a cigarette break during a match

October 26 down the years

Pakistan announce themselves

David Hookes

October 25 down the years

Hookes hurtles to a hundred

Hanif Mohammad

October 24 down the years

The fabulous Mohammad boys

Douglas Jardine

October 23 down the years

And then there was Bodyline

Malcolm Marshall

October 22 down the years

Maco the magnificent

Geoff Boycott

October 21 down the years

A selfish giant?

Virender Sehwag plays a cut shot

October 20 down the years

See ball, hit ball

Bill Ponsford

October 19 down the years

An Aussie run-machine

Narendra Hirwani

October 18 down the years

The Chennai marauder

Anil Kumble waves to his fans

October 17 down the years

A legspinning giant

Jacques Kallis leaves the outfield in Durban with a century to his name in his final Test

October 16 down the years

A modern titan

Wasim Akram, 1997

October 15 down the years

The deadly duo

Tillakaratne Dilshan announces his retirement from Test cricket

October 14 down the years

The man of 2009

John Snow bowls

October 13 down the years

Cricket Rebel

Vijay Merchant

October 12 down the years

An Indian legend

Fazal Mahmood bowls

October 11 down the years

An insomniac's dream

Dave Houghton and Mohammad Azharuddin shake hands

October 10 down the years

Houghton's Hyderabad heroics