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There are two Yuvrajs. The confident one that turns up for ODIs and the imposter that stutters out for the Tests. Who will turn up in Mirpur?

The controversies, the dancing, the England management's apathy towards Ramprakash are all here, but nothing on why his career ended at 52 Tests

No Pakistan player was picked in the IPL auction. Players, boards, governments, all had something to say about it

For a team that doesn't play a lot of Tests, Bangladesh did really well. But hard decisions need to be taken

They cannot use a lack of preparation as an excuse because they are perhaps the most prepared at each tournament

IPL remains India-centric but a cricketing powerhouse like India should think bigger

More people are flocking to Australian domestic Twenty20 games than before and the board plans to cash in with an extravaganza that sounds a lot like the one in India

Pakistan had a chance but blew it, and overall Australia completely dominated in all aspects in the three-Test series which ended in another whitewash for the visitors

The franchises had a purse of $750,000 to spend at the third IPL auction in Mumbai. This is how they went about doing it

Cashing in on reprieves, captains with 10 in a Test, maiden hundreds that turned into triples, and the most centuries in a year

The series was drawn 1-1, but South Africa took most of the stats honours, scoring more runs and centuries, taking more wickets, and averaging more with the bat

Nobody can question that Strauss's role has been all-consuming, but now is not the time to rest

Sachin Tendulkar's has become such a scientific art these days that he has managed to eliminate risk and has almost made batting appear a routine. It's amazing how he has taken a capricious art and made it look a risk-free activity

England seethed after they found Daryl Harper hadn't heard a nick off Graeme Smith's bat because the volume on his system was not turned up

History suggested it was going to be a tight series, and in the end 1-1 felt like the right result. You can understand why South Africa felt they should have won, maybe by as much as three Tests to one, but England's resilience played such a part in makin

Graeme Swann was England's standout player in this series, troubling South Africa's batsmen with dip, turn and determination even on unhelpful surfaces, while Alastair Cook, Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell and Stuart Broad all played valuable roles in England'

There is not a cricket-playing country in the world as backward and as resistant to not just modernity but simple, natural progression as Pakistan

Morne Morkel's evolution was the biggest gain for the hosts in this series, while Dale Steyn, Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher rose to the occasion like true champions

The final Test at the Wanderers brought the thrilling combination of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel terrorising England