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Ridiculed Ishant ridicules England

Ishant Sharma has often been the butt of jokes, and sometimes deservedly so. Today, however, the joke was on England

21-Jul-2014•Jarrod Kimber at Lord's

Scars of the old era haunt England

It will take something remarkable for England to chase down their target and the more evidence that is displayed suggests more fresh faces need to brought into the team in place of mentally scarred seniors

20-Jul-2014•George Dobell at Lord's

Dhoni and Cook take it slow

Stats highlights from the fourth day of the Lord's Test

20-Jul-2014•Bishen Jeswant

Oh, Ravi Jadeja: India's warrior king

The allrounder splits opinion; awash with IPL cash and with three first-class triple hundreds. He is an in-your-face-cricketer trying to establish a Test career and took Lord's by the scruff of the neck

20-Jul-2014•Sidharth Monga at Lord's

A memento from another age

A collection of player portraits that reminds us of a time when cricketers walked the same common clay as ourselves

20-Jul-2014•Gideon Haigh

Bhuvneshwar - Meerut's scissors

The small town in Uttar Pradesh is known for its assembly line of scissors and now, swing bowlers. While Praveen Kumar has fallen off the radar, the relatively humble Bhuvneshwar Kumar is made of sturdier metal

19-Jul-2014•Sidharth Monga at Lord's

'Life's too short to be too tall'

James Taylor talks about riding horses, smashing an unbeaten 220 when he was 15, and captaining England Lions

19-Jul-2014•Interview by Jack Wilson

'I was probably a bit naive' - Ballance

It was been an 'interesting' week for England's No. 3 but the only aspect of it that should really matter is how he is slotting into a key position in the batting order

18-Jul-2014•George Dobell at Lord's

Cook's descent into private hell

Eventually, with the batting failures accumulating and his captaincy not compensating, the reasons for persisting with Alastair Cook are wearing out

18-Jul-2014•George Dobell at Lord's

Bowlers allow Dhoni to breathe again

Usually India's bowlers are ridiculed for letting Dhoni down but on a day that Dhoni let them down, they kept their spirits up, didn't let England run away with it, and came up with their best bowling day in a long time

18-Jul-2014•Sidharth Monga at Lord's

Twenty-two yards of cricket's ever evolving unknown

There has been no shortage of talk about pitches in recent weeks, but even those who have to make important decisions about what to do on them don't always get it right - so what chance the rest of us?

18-Jul-2014•Jarrod Kimber

India's first-innings struggles at Lord's

The only time that India took a lead while batting first at Lord's was in 1936. With England currently at 219 for 6, India will be hoping to make this a second time

18-Jul-2014•Bishen Jeswant

Rahane quietly bedding in as India's No. 6

Tough enough to score crucial runs, prepared for innings that don't have proper structure, content with not cashing in on flat ones, Ajinkya Rahane could be just the man for India

17-Jul-2014•Sidharth Monga at Lord's

England squander golden opportunity

They wasted the new ball, they dropped chances and they reverted to the type of tactics that made little use of the sort of pitch of which England seamers should dream

17-Jul-2014•George Dobell at Lord's

India's rearguard and Anderson's records

Some key numbers at the end of the first day's play of the Lord's Test between India and England.

17-Jul-2014•Bishen Jeswant

Dhoni implacable on Anderson

James Anderson has riled many opponents in an illustrious Test career, but when it came to his disagreement with Ravindra Jadeja, India's captain MS Dhoni saw a chance to make a stand

16-Jul-2014•Sidharth Monga

Spat provides useful distraction for England

Alastair Cook, the Lord's groundsman, and Simon Kerrigan have all been ignored while the spat between James Anderson and Ravindra Jadeja takes the headlines

16-Jul-2014•George Dobell

Being on the Beeb and other stories

In which our correspondent is remembered by a former international cricketer, befriends a librarian, and talks horses with Ravindra Jadeja

16-Jul-2014•Sidharth Monga

Bigger concerns for England than Lord's pitch

While the pitch took most of the blame at Trent Bridge, at Lord's England will need to get more controlling overs from their spinners. The reality is there is no quick fix

15-Jul-2014•Andrew McGlashan at Lord's

Seamers give England edge, toss vital

Stats indicate that England's fast bowlers have used the conditions at Lord's better in recent times, and that teams batting first are at an advantage

15-Jul-2014•Shiva Jayaraman

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