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Gilchrist turns back the years

There weren't too many Australians around in the IPL this year, but they still made their presence felt in no uncertain terms, with Adam Gilchrist leading the way

28-May-2009•S Rajesh

First knight ends the nightmare

After 27 days of trial and error, folly and failure, Kolkata Knight Riders finally won another match - and the crowd's response was fitting

18-May-2009•Sriram Veera in Centurion

The Warne factor in the IPL

Spinners have had a huge role to play in IPL 2009, but one bowler hasn't quite made the impact you'd have expected in conditions in which many other, lesser bowlers have done extremely well

18-May-2009•S Rajesh

Hayden versus the hapless bowlers

Three weeks into the IPL, and Matthew Hayden continues to hog the IPL limelight, with an aggregate that is far higher than anyone else in the tournament so far

10-May-2009•S Rajesh

'Twenty20 gives you your life'

Refreshed by his time out of top-flight cricket, Chennai's Aussie powerhouse has been able to fret less and enjoy his batting, secure in the knowledge that he has nothing to lose

10-May-2009•Interview by Nagraj Gollapudi

Who'll make the cut, and who'll miss out?

It's central contracts time in Australia, and Cricinfo runs the rule on the 39 players who've played in various forms of the game for the national team, and attempts to identify the 25 who will make the cut

04-May-2009•S Rajesh

Hayden, Gilchrist, Warne, and little else

Seventeen games into the IPL, and the Australian influence in the tournament hasn't been a whole lot

29-Apr-2009•Cricinfo staff

Swing with a smile

Meeting one's heroes can often be a disappointment but not for this loyal Queenslander

28-Apr-2009•Peter English

Australians shine but in the wrong place

Australia's embarrassing defeat to Pakistan stemmed in part from a lack of experience and coincided with the free-scoring form of Gilchrist and Hayden in the IPL

22-Apr-2009•Alex Brown

Gilchrist lends weight to opening statements

The wisdom ahead of this tournament as experts tried to compare and contrast Indian conditions with those in South Africa was that the new ball was going to be crucial. It has indeed been crucial, but just not in the way people expected

22-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

Warne wizardry lights up veterans' day

Shane Warne's night was ruined by a shoddy batting performance from his team. But what a pleasure he was to watch. We must be grateful that he is still in our lives, however briefly

18-Apr-2009•Sambit Bal

Marsh, Watson, and several other stars

The IPL wasn't timed perfectly for those who were in the national Australian team, but despite that handicap, the Australians made their presence felt quite amply in the 2008 tournament

16-Apr-2009•S Rajesh

The artful stodger

In a team of strugglers and second-stringers, one man stood upright and unsmiling against the tide

13-Apr-2009•Malcolm Knox

Last man standing

Can Australia's captain rebuild an empire ravaged by age and retirement?

10-Apr-2009•John Stern

Spinners thrive, minnows flounder, sixes flow

The Women's World Cup witnessed several statistical highlights. Cricinfo looks at some of the interesting numbers from the tournament

24-Mar-2009•Cricinfo staff

A great advertisement for women's cricket

The pitches, slower at the end of Australia's summer season, aided spin but did not let the bowlers to dominate the batsmen; the two-week format allowed each side a minimum of four games

24-Mar-2009•Nishi Narayanan

Australia ride on bowling resurgence

Stats review of the Test series between South Africa and Australia

23-Mar-2009•Siddhartha Talya

Harris leaves 'buffet bowler' tag behind

The Australians must have been waiting for table service at Newlands, where they failed to handle what Harris dished up in a Man-of-the-Match performance that earned him his best match figures of 9 for 161

22-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Centurion Johnson morphs into an allrounder

The Mitchell Johnson allrounder debate is over. His captain says he's an allrounder. He says he's an allrounder. The figures from this tour back them up

22-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Sublime de Villiers repays Arthur's faith

AB de Villiers' contribution of 163 continued his brilliant series, which had been the intention when the coach Mickey Arthur declined to push him up to open

21-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

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