The hinterland of 40

Jon Hotten: At Lord's we saw three in-between scores of the sort that are as likely to annoy the selectors as excite them

All Imran's men

Stuart Wark: The Pakistan team that won its first Test series in England in 1987 was probably the finest in the country's history

Misbah and the art of wicket acquisition

Ahmer Naqvi: Lord's presented us with a fine study in his methods, where bowler and captain showcase their styles while sticking to a larger plan

The art of fixing a Sunday game

Nicholas Hogg: Do you know how hard it is to bowl badly and avoid taking wickets?

A second revolution in Pakistan cricket

Kamran Abbasi: All four of Pakistan's victories at Lord's have been special. The latest one was extra sweet because it came after a 20-year wait

Bring on the Super League

Raf Nicholson: League cricket has had a presence in the women's game in England for dozens of years, and the KSL looks set to build on that tradition

Where does Amir's comeback rank?

Michael Jeh: There's no shortage of stories of players being granted second chances in cricket

The five-step model for Pakistan fans

Liam Cromar: It's hard not to be moved by a team that gives equal parts joy and sorrow, and is never for a moment dull

Will the real Pakistan please stand up?

Hassan Cheema: The world watches to see whether they will validate their current form as one of the world's top teams or return in tatters

Why hitting is more optimal than batting in T20

Kartikeya Date: A simulation model that predicts outcomes of limited-overs matches drives the point home

Colin Ingram, South Africa's invisible man

Luke Alfred: How the batsman has come to be an emblem of the neglect of a region

Looking beyond wickets and averages

Anantha Narayanan: An analysis of the quality of wickets of Test bowlers using various measures

Were the '70s really a golden era for India?

Sankaran Krishna: Apart from the famous wins in West Indies and England, India spent the decade doing a fair bit of losing

Three men in a box

Jon Hotten: Just as the game has changed, so has the way it is talked about

Bavuma's giant leap

The South African batsman talks Luke Alfred through his landmark hundred at Newlands against England

The cricket shots we actually play

Pete Langman: Driving is for pros. In the real world, things are different

Taking a break from cricket

Nicholas Hogg: Sometimes you fall out of love with the game, but a return to it is nearly always inevitable

Cricket equals pain

Your body hurts, your mind rebels, and your spirit can't handle the world changing around you. By Jonathan Wilson

The problem with the umpire's call

Scott Oliver: The purpose of arriving at correct decisions using the DRS is undermined by the need to not undermine the umpire's authority

That '70s India-West Indies show

V Ramnarayan: The rivalry has been a storied one - particularly through one decade of the 20th century

Umar Akmal and the meaning of ambition

Ahmer Naqvi: There are no hotheads, big mouths or flashy dressers in the current Pakistani side. It's a drastic change from the country's teams of old

Gayle's problem

Jon Hotten: The acknowledgement he craves as a cricketer has become more distant for him, and he only has himself to blame for it

Why South Africa need to free themselves from shame

Luke Alfred: They're a very good ODI side, if only they can change their cricket culture

How super is the Super Series?

Liam Cromar: Is the splitting of points across formats in a series a good idea? Not quite, given the way it's being implemented

The parent trap

Sam Blackledge on why recent fatherhood isn't conducive to life as a cricket fan

A Perth quick goes to Yorkshire

Akash Fotedar on the differences between Premier cricket in Australia and the English leagues

How important is the England tour for Pakistan?

Hassan Cheema: It just might be their most significant series in years - not that you could tell by their preparation

Bat, ball and family will sustain cricket

Nicholas Hogg: Love of the game can be passed on regardless of whether you have satellite TV or not

Why I'd pay to watch neutral Tests

Michael Jeh: One way to deal with unequal contests is to make the conditions equally alien for both sides

The bowlers who hit the zone and stayed there

Anantha Narayanan: The best streaks for bowlers in Tests using the bowling average and wickets-per-Test measures

Letting go of Lottie

Raf Nicholson: Charlotte Edwards influenced not only the women's game but also those who covered it

Out in the cold with Chris Lewis

Scott Oliver: The day the former England allrounder bowled 30 overs in a beanie

I'm not ready to retire, even if my body is

Jonathan Wilson: Redemption, fate and hope are words that swirl around in the mind as the dreaded day looms closer

Give us box-set Test cricket, please

Jon Hotten: Fewer series may help give the format a more meaningful narrative

Pakistan's soft coup

Hassan Cheema: The PCB is implementing some of former coach Waqar Younis' recommendations, but will they help?

Two myths about the IPL

Kartikeya Date: Is Kohli as good at T20 as he is cracked up to be? And did the better bowling side win this year's title?

Remembering 2008

Luke Alfred: As Mickey Arthur takes charge of Pakistan, he can look back at his successful tours of England and Australia

Three IPL leggies who gladdened the heart

V Ramnarayan: Amit Mishra, Yuzvendra Chahal and Adam Zampa, along with other bowlers, challenged the dominance of batsmen in the league

Why runs per Test is an excellent measure for consistency

Anantha Narayanan: A study of match runs often gives a clearer picture of how well a batsman has done over a period

Who said offspin is the lesser art?

Nicholas Hogg: Maybe it is the forgotten genius of the brethren?

The charm of cricket's most unobtrusive participant

Wicketkeepers are only noticed when they fumble. But they are the real attention magnets - or ought to be

Would we still watch if the game was made more bowler-friendly?

Ahmer Naqvi: What if the laws were tweaked to favour bowlers?

When sixes were rare

Sankaran Krishna: In the past, clearing the boundary in a Test was an event

What Cozier meant to me

Samir Chopra: When you thought of West Indies cricket in the 1980s, his name was up there with those of Lloyd, Roberts, Marshall, Holding and the rest

Thank God it's not the Ashes

Liam Cromar: A year without England v Australia contests makes for a nice change of pace

Before you can hit it, you have to think it

Jon Hotten: The scoop, the sweep and all of the other shots that are now becoming standard in cricket began as acts of imagination, driven by necessity

How much should a cricketer train?

Michael Jeh: Shorter, higher-intensity workouts with rest could help players last the season without getting injured

Players and umpires need to get along better

Scott Oliver: If the two parties can each have more trust and empathy for the other, it would reduce the number of incidents of bad behaviour in club cricket

Swinging 60

Anantha Narayanan: A look at the select few batsmen who touched the average 60 during their Test careers

Do we need to be harsher on wide yorkers?

V Ramnarayan: Maybe it's time to give bowlers a little more leeway down the leg side and a little less on the off

Does a winning cricket team have to be a happy one?

Nicholas Hogg: Whether the stakes are high or you're just playing a friendly, there is value to the bond between players

How to bring singles back into T20

Kartikeya Date: The format favours power hitters and bowlers of limited talent, which leads to the marginalisation of the single as a scoring unit

Why aren't Pakistan's captaincy candidates being groomed properly?

Hassan Cheema: Yet again, like with so much else, the PCB has missed a trick

The ball you're always trying to bowl

Jonathan Wilson: When you feel like death and play on, hoping to produce the devastating dipper you long for

Women's pay should not depend on results

Raf Nicholson: Professionalism means rewarding your players well irrespective of on-field results

What is nets?

Practice can mean a whole lot of things. By Liam Cromar

Does the decision to toss or not affect the pitch?

Jon Hotten: The further away a match travels from the coin spin, the harder it becomes to find solid evidence of advantage

The problem with Pakistan's chief selectors

Ahmer Naqvi: The constant chopping and changing that occurred during the tenures of Moin Khan and Haroon Rasheed has affected Pakistan's ODI fortunes

Feasting, grooving, dancing at Chepauk

Sankaran Krishna: In the '70s, a Test match day in Madras involved home-cooked lunches and Hindi film music

Robert Key, the ruddy-faced southern me

Alex Bowden: Always a stand-in, he never really got his due with England - not that he let it bother him too much

America is waking up to cricket's marketing potential

The IPL and the vast Indian consumer base are attracting other sports owners, data analysts, and lots of others interested in making money

The juju is bad for South Africa

Luke Alfred: The last few months have been a steep comedown. What has gone wrong?

Why team spirit is no illusion

Scott Oliver: It may be fashionable to dismiss it as a figment of hindsight, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist

How much does the toss really matter?

The numbers show that the team winning the toss has a marginal advantage, and the extent of it varies depending on the format and the quality of the teams

How do you compare players across eras?

Pranay Sanklecha: There still are ways of discussing players of one age in the context of those from another

Darren Sammy, WICB-slayer?

Vaneisa Baksh: Will the West Indies captain go down in history as the man who brought the board to its knees?

Ten things we learned from the World T20 (or already knew)

Kohli is very good; so are England; so is the art of running twos. Oh, and dew is water. By Nicholas Hogg

Here's looking at spin in the IPL

V Ramnarayan: The teams' slow-bowling strengths vary, but there do seem to be plenty of legbreaks in the offing

A 360-degree look at the 2016 World T20

Anantha Narayanan: A statistical recap of the tournament and its standout performances