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How do the eight IPL teams stack up?

Can Knight Riders' overseas players stay fit through the season? Will the lack of a proper wicketkeeper hurt Kings XI? Who will Royal Challengers choose between McCullum and de Kock?

28-Jan-2018•ESPNcricinfo staff

Mujeeb Zadran, the mystery spinner from Khost

Kings XI Punjab's new recruit from Afghanistan is a 16-year-old who bowls offbreaks, legbreaks, the carrom ball and the googly, and can't get enough of Real Madrid merchandise

28-Jan-2018•Shashank Kishore in Christchurch

'I sat inside the washroom when my bidding was on'

Representing India at the Under-19 World Cup, there was already enough on the minds of Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shubman Gill and Prithvi Shaw. And then, the IPL auction came along

28-Jan-2018•Shashank Kishore in Christchurch

South Africa beaten at their own game

They achieved the series victory, but having the final Test taken off them will hurt Faf du Plessis' side for some time to come

27-Jan-2018•Firdose Moonda at the Wanderers

Batsmen earn top dollar, fast bowlers remain blue chip

All eight franchises picked half their squads on the first day of the auction. Take a look at the major trends coming out of Saturday's shopping carts

27-Jan-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi

Ishant Sharma, India's lifeline

He is rarely bowling any bad balls and because of the pressure he created at one end in Johannesburg, South Africa were always on the hook

27-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Johannesburg

A first in Test history: 120 wickets up for grabs, 120 wickets taken

Although it was bowlers' series, Dean Elgar recorded the third instance of a South African batsman carrying his bat

27-Jan-2018•S Rajesh

'Hope the critics will be eating their words for dinner tonight!'

Twitter reactions to India's win over South Africa in the third Test on a spicy track in Johannesburg

27-Jan-2018•ESPNcricinfo staff

CSK soar into the 30s, Yuvraj falls by 89%

Some key numbers - and trivia - from day one of the mega-auction in Bengaluru

27-Jan-2018•Srinath Sripath and Bharath Seervi

India show courage and conviction on tricky surface

On a highly uncertain third-day surface, India's batsmen stared the devil in the eye and bore everything it threw at them

27-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Johannesburg

Kohli becomes India's highest scoring Test captain

He went past Sunil Gavaskar and MS Dhoni to take the record

26-Jan-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Bigger than ever, with a dash of uncertainty

Will franchises retain the old core set of players or invest in a new group? How will the presence of uncapped players affect teams' auction strategies?

26-Jan-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi

Porel's return, India's offensive and sledging in vernacular

India's aggression, Bangladesh's diffidence and an animated war of words between the two sides - a look at all the talking points from the quarter-final

26-Jan-2018•Shashank Kishore in Queenstown

'This is not a cricket pitch, this is dangerous'

Was the pitch put out for the Johannesburg Test dangerous to the players' well being? The cricket world has its say

26-Jan-2018•ESPNcricinfo staff

All the FAQs about the IPL auction

A breakdown of the franchises' spending capacities, potential retention targets, and how the whole process will go down over the weekend

26-Jan-2018•Arun Venugopal

Let's not belittle the art of pitch-making

If South Africa manage to come out victorious on this pitch, you can imagine that India might ask for the wrestling pits of Haryana to be turned rectangular for cricket on their next tour

25-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Johannesburg

Johannesburg: India's favourite venue for bowling

India's record at the Wanderers is an outlier when it comes to away touring

25-Jan-2018•Bharath Seervi

The nominees for the IPL millionaire club are...

Ben Stokes or Mitchell Starc? Gautam Gambhir or Yuzvendra Chahal? Who's your guess?

25-Jan-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi and Gaurav Sundararaman

Shivam Mavi: young, focused and very fast

Amid a boisterous bunch in the India Under-19 team, he is reaping benefits of training hard and shifting bases after he was rejected by Delhi at the Under-16 level

25-Jan-2018•Shashank Kishore

Kohli's fire and Pujara's ice do the trick for India

On a pitch with copious amounts of seam movement, two very different batsmen did in large parts what comes naturally to them to lay a platform for India

24-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Johannesburg

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