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Where have all the wristspinners gone in Test cricket?

It's a weird, in-between time for the craft in the longest format

12-Feb-2025•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Rashid Khan: 'It's going to be massive to get 1000 wickets'

The Afghanistan wristspinner has lofty goals and at just 26 years old he has time to achieve them

07-Feb-2025•Nagraj Gollapudi

Stats - Rashid Khan, T20 king in every phase and every league

The Afghanistan wristspinner gave no indication that he would become this good early on. But now he stands at the pinnacle

04-Feb-2025•Sampath Bandarupalli

What does Test cricket mean to the Test teams outside the World Test Championship?

Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Ireland have no pathway to break into the league of nine teams and play few Tests. What does their future in Test cricket look like?

03-Feb-2025•Ekanth

Powerplay: More than just a match for Afghanistan Women's XI

A set of exiled players come together to face a Cricket Without Borders side in Melbourne on Thursday

29-Jan-2025•ESPNcricinfo staff

Powerplay: How cricket helped Afghanistan women escape

Firooza Amiri and Benafsha Hashimi talk about their love of the game, their hardships, and how they hope their men's team can raise awareness for them

22-Jan-2025•ESPNcricinfo staff

Which visiting bowler has the most wickets in a Test series in Australia?

Also: Who was the batter who hit seven sixes in an over in a List A match recently?

14-Jan-2025•Steven Lynch

Has any other bowler got to 200 Test wickets averaging less than Jasprit Bumrah?

Also, who holds the record for the most international runs in a calendar year in women's cricket?

07-Jan-2025•Steven Lynch

Stats - Rashid Khan among most prolific wicket-takers after six Tests

The spin-bowling allrounder also produced the best figures in an innings for Afghanistan, while debutant Ismat Alam joined an elite list of debutant centurions from No. 8

06-Jan-2025•Namooh Shah

South Africa shine, India and Australia juggle joy and gloom

In our second batch of team report cards for 2024: India, Australia, South Africa, Bangladesh, West Indies, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe

02-Jan-2025

Stats - Zimbabwe (586), Afghanistan (699) reach record highs in Bulawayo run-fest

Afghanistan needed just 10 Tests to post their maiden 600-plus total, as they broke a host of records against Zimbabwe

30-Dec-2024•Sampath Bandarupalli

Jasprit Bumrah, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Laura Wolvaardt and Nicholas Pooran make it to our teams of the year

Our staff pick their men's and women's teams from among those who excelled through the year

30-Dec-2024•Yash Jha

The young and old hands in Afghanistan's third successive ODI series win

Having shown glimpses of their ability in the last two World Cups, Afghanistan have most pieces of the puzzle right in the lead up to the Champions Trophy

12-Nov-2024•Mohammad Isam

Shahidi and Afghanistan show Bangladesh how to get out of trouble

Both teams found themselves in similar situations in the opening ODI in Sharjah but only one found their way out

07-Nov-2024•Mohammad Isam

Afghanistan favourites in familiar Sharjah as Nahid, Nasum await visas

Form and familiarity with conditions are in Afghanistan's favour; off-field issues and poor results have bogged Bangladesh down of late

05-Nov-2024•Mohammad Isam

Noor Ahmad: gun wristspinner who turned St Lucia Kings' X-factor

All of 19, he has already played in the IPL, PSL, BBL, the Hundred, MLC, LPL and SA20, and could soon have a CPL title to his name

05-Oct-2024•Ashish Pant

Women's cricket is the ideal playground for swing

Because of the slower pace of the game, big, banana swing is far more common in the women's game, almost defining its entire vocabulary

03-Oct-2024•Sidharth Monga

Is Kamindu Mendis the fastest to 1000 Test runs?

And is R Ashwin the only player to take a five-for and score a hundred in a Test at the same ground twice?

01-Oct-2024•Steven Lynch

Stats - Afghanistan's historic series win, Gurbaz's record century

All the key numbers as Afghanistan seal their first ODI series win against a top-five ranked nation

21-Sep-2024•Sampath Bandarupalli

Stats - A new low for South Africa, and Farooqi gets to 100

All the big numbers from South Africa's collapse to 106 against Afghanistan in Sharjah

18-Sep-2024•ESPNcricinfo stats team

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