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Who is Pritam Gandhe? To people who follow domestic cricket - especially the Plate League - through scorecards (there's no other way really), he is a Vidarbha offspinner who is one of only three bowlers to have taken more than one hat-trick in the Ranji T

South Africa have done some fabulous impersonations of previous Australian teams while winning this series, but over the past four days they have also copied the dead-rubber syndrome that afflicted sides led by Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor

Xavier has the makings of the star player West Indies cricket sorely needs but it comes with a volatile temperament not uncommon to those blessed with a touch of genius

Falling one short of two centuries in a Test, the biggest last-innings scores to lose, and the highest current overall batting average

Series wins in England and Australia - could 2008 have been any better for South Africa?

Peter Moores is on the brink as England coach after a very public falling-out with his captain, Kevin Pietersen. Cricinfo takes a look at five possible candidates to replace him

Cracks have been forming all over the place during this series. For two Tests the brittleness was Australia's, but in Sydney the fault lines have been shaking South Africa

In a way M Vijay and Abhinav Mukund have been to Tamil Nadu what Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir have been to India. They are a right-hand-left-hand combination who score fast and run well between the wickets

After over a decade of unstinting dominance, Australia were finally brought down to earth

Cricinfo's senior editors on the best passages of cricket they watched in 2008

The 2009 first-class competition will feature "return" matches, will run for 14 successive weekends and will allow teams 12 matches in the season, the most in regional history

Ireland and Scotland fared well, while Bermuda, Kenya, Canada and Netherlands plumbed the depths

Funding has never been better, but ironically, it is now harder for the Associates and Affiliates to join cricket's elite than before

A new year comes with the same problems despite all the resolutions and promises of change

Ajinkya Rahane needs 24 runs to reach the 1000-run mark for the season

Chanderpaul stood head and shoulders above his middling team, and the board bumbled it's way all through

How the advent of one player promises to mark the beginning of an epoch for a country's cricket

Marauders at the top, unclassifiables below. Welcome to Cricinfo's Test and ODI teams of the year

Mahela Jayawardene plays his 100th Test on Saturday. He talks about his journey that has seen him become much more than just a seasoned Test cricketer

Sanjay Manjrekar, Ian Chappell and Tony Greig on the issues facing cricket in 2009