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The Official Confectionery Stall Cricketing Morality Challenge

Find out the direction in which your cricketing moral compass points

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

England's one-day masterplan

For all the high-tech scientific methodologies of 21st-century cricket, England may be establishing a new blueprint for tournament success in the modern hyper-crowded international cricket calendar

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Getting the choke out of the way

I have spent the last 48 hours locked inside a darkened scorebox in my garden attempting to envisage scenarios in which England win the Champions Trophy

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

An equal contest

The nature of pitches in the Champions Trophy meant that batsmen, fast bowlers and spinners all had a chance to shine

06-Oct-2009•S Rajesh

Staying alive

The Champions Trophy has shown that ODIs can still be a format in which many things pleasing and surprising may happen

06-Oct-2009•Osman Samiuddin in South Africa

Watson shrugs off big-match nerves

In Watson, what they possess is a very accomplished batsman who can play anywhere in the order, who's also more than capable as fourth or fifth bowler

06-Oct-2009•Dileep Premachandran in Centurion

New Zealand lack last-burst player

The side's only hope lay in a burst of genius but that goes against the very ethos of modern New Zealand sides

06-Oct-2009•Osman Samiuddin in Centurion

All numbers point to Australia

Fittingly, the Champions Trophy final will be contested between the two teams which historically have the best win-loss record in this tournament

04-Oct-2009•S Rajesh

Sanitised but entertaining

An English fan sports an Austrian cricket cap and Hong Kong rugby shirt while supporting New Zealand

04-Oct-2009•Michael Bailey

Pakistan powerless in Powerplays

If we are to dissect, it is the batsmen who lost it and nothing new is said in that

04-Oct-2009•Osman Samiuddin in Johannesburg

Vettori's value fully received

How well Vettori performed, and how well his team followed

04-Oct-2009•Sambit Bal in Johannesburg

Ponting brings it

For an Aussie fan it can't get much better than sitting with the Barmy Army and watching Ponting and Watson dismantle England

03-Oct-2009•Michael De Witt

New Zealand up against bogey opponent

Stats preview to the Champions Trophy semi-final between New Zealand and Pakistan in Johannesburg

02-Oct-2009•S Rajesh

Can England continue to surprise?

They came into this tournament as no-hopers, yet England now find themselves in the semi-finals. But, in many ways, that's just typical of them

01-Oct-2009•Osman Samiuddin in Centurion

Bat first, score 300-plus, win match

Stats preview to the Champions Trophy semi-final between Australia and England

01-Oct-2009•S Rajesh

No crowd, no Tendulkar, and Dhoni the bowler

A journalist finds every one in the press box glued to another game

01-Oct-2009•David Katz

A wishy-washy day at SuperSport Park

What's to see in a washout? Elvis, raucous fans from either side, and a brilliant run-out, among other things. But who'll pay for parking?

29-Sep-2009•Dana Malan

What India need to do to go through

A look at the margin of the results of the last two Group A games needed for India to sneak into the semi-finals

28-Sep-2009•S Rajesh

Big-event hoodoo returns to haunt South Africa

Three global events on home turf, and not even a semi-final place to show for it. And yet, with the little support for the magnificent Graeme Smith, it could all have been so very different

28-Sep-2009•Dileep Premachandran in Centurion

Spin could be India's weapon

India have been compelled to abandon their preferred formula and reinforce their bowling at the cost of their batting. It is a risk, but one worth taking

27-Sep-2009•Sambit Bal in Centurion

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