Welcome to the 3000th Test

Droid Broad, Bell Jr Jr and more. Alan Tyers trains his Futurometer on the year 2061

Cricket's secular feast day

Boxing Day at the MCG is one of cricket's grand traditions. For some it's about being at the cricket and for others a time with family, writes Greg Baum

'They got the cameraman to field at long leg'

2000 Tests: Harsha Bhogle on the joy of being a rookie on air when Richard Hadlee broke the record for most Test wickets

Which are the greatest dynasties of them all?

2000 Tests: Is it possible to compare the Invincibles of 1948 to the West Indies teams of the '80s and '90s, asks Gideon Haigh

I've watched them all

2000 Tests: Test matches burn bright in the memory whether you watched them or not. By Suresh Menon

A sport to make clocks melt

2000 Tests: In Test cricket, like in no other game, time is a protagonist. An instant can be an aeon, hours can go by in a heartbeat. By Sharda Ugra

'There was magic in the air'

Champagne Moments: Australia's Port Elizabeth Test of 1997 where they came back from the dead to pull off a series win

A plot of earth that knows its worth

Michael Henderson: Cricket is coming home for its 2000th Test, but even if the game's a dud, it cannot take away from the glory of the ground hosting it

The triple

Peter Roebuck: The 300-run milestone is unique to Test cricket, calling on the batsman to express the work of a lifetime in a single innings

The innings of Waugh's career

Champagne Moments: Commentator Tim Lane recalls Australia's back-from-the-dead win in Port Elizabeth in 1997, and Mark Waugh's contribution to it

Champagne moments

The fall of West Indies

2000 Tests: In the first of ESPNcricinfo's Champagne Moments, Jim Maxwell recounts Australia's historic series-clinching win in Jamaica in 1995

Whites are right

2000 Tests: They're evocative, they're old-timey, they're among cricket's few constants in an age of change. By Tanya Aldred

The most compelling Test?

Rob Steen: Context, quality, balance and drama make a Test memorable. Is there any one game that ticks all boxes?

The battle of the openers

2000 Tests: Test cricket is at its most compelling when it's the hard new ball against the men who have to see it off - or, send it packing. By Mike Selvey

Ave Test cricket

Gideon Haigh: The five-day game still stands, a byword for excellence in an era that encourages, and even worships, mass mediocrity

The primal contest

2000 Tests: The game's essential match-up, of batsman against bowler, finds its best expression in Test cricket. By Peter Roebuck

Bradman's last to Tendulkar's 50th

2000 Tests: Test cricket's milestones from the second half of the last century and the first decade of this one

From Lillywhite to the end of the War

2000 Tests: A look at the milestones from the first 75-odd years of Test cricket

Nine hundred from 1988

2000 Tests: A look at every 100th Test down the years: No. 1100 to 1900 includes Inzamam's triple-century, Nasser's farewell, and a Cape Town Test played in May

The first thousand

2000 Tests: A look at every 100th Test down the years: No. 1 to No. 1000 includes the Invincibles, Holding to Boycott, and the Centenary Test