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How thin is the line between victory and loss in an ODI game? It's the line that separated Ishant Sharma and Thilina Kandamby on Saturday at the R Premadasa Stadium

John Barclay was a nearly man as a player, but absolutely makes it as a writer of memoirs

Marais Erasmus will become probably the first overseas umpire to officiate in Indian domestic cricket, starting with the Duleep Trophy game in Mumbai. Nagraj Gollapudi met him

There isn't a notice on the Sri Lankan dressing-room door but if there was one, it would read: 'If you find the old Mahela Jayawardene please return. We need him. Desperately'

Two teams with fairly impressive recent ODI records face off as they search for the perfect combination

Five overs in eight minutes, the most 100-run partnerships, and cricketers who played tennis

The two bowlers who impressed most during the Duleep Trophy were virtual unknowns from India's cricketing backwaters: Andhra legspinner M Suresh and Vidarbha fast bowler Umesh Yadav

Rahul Dravid played the sort of knock that made him the world's most bankable batsman a few years ago, displaying the confidence, ease and solidity that were once second nature to him

Perhaps it was just that the shock of it was too much, but Shoaib Malik's press conference after Pakistan's heaviest defeat (in terms of runs) was surprisingly - and happily - free of rancour

The only thing better than defeating opponents is crushing them. And the only thing better than that is to do so at their own game

Nothing illustrates more aptly the emptiness of whatever method and merit there is to Pakistan's current thinking than the continued selection of Kamran Akmal as a first-choice wicketkeeper

So what if England didn't win too much last summer? The video chronicle makes for compelling viewing

Sreesanth's first bowling stint in the spotlight since last year's IPL was a typically entertaining mix of the sublime and the surreal

Karthik's 113-ball 153 at the Chinnaswamy Stadium that bumped Central Zone from being front-runners to playing catch-up; from 86 for 6, South Zone rocketed along to a more-than-acceptable 290 for 8 by the time he was dismissed

Dilshan has been a constant for many years now, a significant part of many of their successes and evolution. But what exactly is he, what is his role?

Is it sacrilegious to suggest that what Pakistan needs more of is a Rao Iftikhar Anjum and less of the flash that we've become accustomed to? Rao is as far removed from the bling of Pakistan's pace lineage as is possible.

Fastest to 100 ODI wickets, fewest Test runs including a double-century, and England's South African captains

Hayden better than Tendulkar? Nobody may be taking the ICC's rankings seriously, but they're talking about them all right