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Some eye-gouging stats about Dale Steyn and his contemporaries

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

A hero in a dystopian wasteland

Just as Mad Max struck his own path through the Australian outback, Graham Thorpe was a bastion of consistency in the quagmire of batting collapses

25-Feb-2013•Peter Miller

Women's cricket goes global

The current World Cup in India has seen plenty of promising performances, and even more compelling characters, emerge from the less established nations

25-Feb-2013•Jack Sheldon

Chanderpaul Junior ready to take centrestage

It is not uncommon to see sons and daughters unable to live up to the 'hype' of their parents' great successes because, quite frankly, the bar has been set impossibly high

25-Feb-2013•Roger Sawh

The 25-thousand-dollar wave

The IPL auction unabashedly displays cricket's new-found financial muscle. As one owner put it: "the money doesn't matter" - to these people price is merely a figure, not an obstacle

25-Feb-2013•Freddie Wilde

A quieter and purer game

First let me just say that there is something about watching tall, lanky, lithe women, with flowing hair held back by headbands, display aggression - makes for compelling viewing

25-Feb-2013•Vidya Hariharan

What sub-50 innings scores teach us

A wealth of learning is packed into this post. (And also the most meaningless stat of the month)

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Franchises and future stars

Cricketers runs, wickets and catches are determined by their own talent, for sure, but they are typically also the result of a hidden multi-year investment by a cricket club, board, or association that was never guaranteed to bear fruit

25-Feb-2013•Aashish Pattani

Wanted: more Powerplays, and warlocks as umpires

Lessons to be learnt from series gone past

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

The Women's World Cup deserves better

Preparations for the tenth Women's Cricket World Cup in India have descended into a farce, following the BCCI's decision to make late changes to the schedule

25-Feb-2013•Jack Sheldon

Using over-rate fines for important research

If something isn't done to stop cricket from further slowing down, the game could be severely threatened by 2100

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

The Caribbean Ashes

There's one rivalry within the Caribbean nexus that is big and is only getting bigger - Guyana v Trinidad (or Trinidad v Guyana, depending on your allegiances)

25-Feb-2013•Roger Sawh

Big Bash League: boon or bane?

People who praise the BBL, how exactly are they quantifying their eulogy? Is it fun? Yes. Is it exciting? Debatable. Is the cricket of a high standard? Perhaps. Is it benefitting Australian cricket? Certainly not

25-Feb-2013•Freddie Wilde

Viva New Zealand

Whatever would connoisseurs of inconsequential stats do without their contributions?

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

England's limited-overs progress report

Issues facing England's short-format cricket include too much differentiating between ODI and T20 players and the below-par seam attack

25-Feb-2013•Owen Edwards

Aristotle's predictions for 2013

Famous Greek philosopher weighs in on the year ahead. Hypothetically

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

In defence of home advantage

Conditions around the world vary, and pitches are prepared to suit the home team on a regular basis. But there's nothing wrong with that as the game would lose its greatest challenges if pitches are homogenised

25-Feb-2013•Douglas Sloan

The Faisalabad Befuddler, and a collective tribute to Chris Martin

Includes Cricketer of the Earth and what the BCCI needs to do to make Gautam Gambhir score runs again

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Tendulkar: I hate him like I love him

For a generation that believed success in life was directly linked to an engineering-college berth (or a medical-school berth), Tendulkar was an antithesis

25-Feb-2013•Suman Kumar

The mercilessly squeezed goose and other stories

In other words, the Confectionery Stall's World Cricket Awards, part one

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

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