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England feel the heat of battle

England's hopes in this Test melted away under the scorching Cape Town sun

05-Jan-2010•Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town

Smith meets the needs of the hour ... again

Graeme Smith is a player for the big occasion. Show him adversity and he'll see a challenge to overcome

05-Jan-2010•Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town

When inexperience and experience combined well

With the World Cup in sight, what matters is that Sri Lanka are slowly beginning to find men who are soaking up the pressure and learning to deliver

05-Jan-2010•Sriram Veera at the Shere Bangla National Stadium

Need for speed

The emergence of 20-year-old Abhimanyu Mithun has injected some serious pace in the Karnataka bowling. His 38 wickets this season has been one of the keys to extracting them from the mediocrity they had been trapped in over the past few years

05-Jan-2010•Siddarth Ravindran at the Chinnaswamy Stadium

Pakistan fight themselves on crucial day

Pakistan are close, very close, to something very big. But in Australia you are never over the line until you are over the line

05-Jan-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Nineties suit nearly-man Watson

So close, so commanding, so gripping

05-Jan-2010•Peter English at the SCG

The best by 10 and 11, and young 200s

Tenth-wicket century stands, the total number of Test runs scored, and a debut hundred in the second innings

05-Jan-2010•Steven Lynch

Ashes anguish and one-day joys

The fall to No. 4, injuries to key bowlers, Ponting's return to mortality: Australia's 2009 was mostly filled with gloom

05-Jan-2010•Peter English

Nearly is not enough for England's batsmen

England had the chance to grasp the series on the second day at Newlands, but they loosened their grip

04-Jan-2010•Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town

Steyn and Morkel live up to the hype

This was what touring South Africa is meant to be all about, the battle between batsmen and fast bowlers

04-Jan-2010•Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town

In Dravid they trust

There can hardly be a more reassuring sight than Rahul Dravid at the crease when your team is in a slight bother. As on innumerable times over the past decade, he calmed Karnataka's nerves on the second day at the Chinnaswamy by blunting the UP attack

04-Jan-2010•Siddarth Ravindran at the Chinnaswamy Stadium

The guide that tells you how, and who

The ESPN Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket 2010 is the answer for cricket lovers

04-Jan-2010

Mentorless attack errs in length

The Australian bowlers had watched the success of the Pakistanis but did not bother to copy their method

04-Jan-2010•Peter English at the SCG

From chaos to a happy place

England's year began with the Moores-Pietersen spat and the 51 all out and went on to take in the Ashes win and a marked improvement in ODI cricket

04-Jan-2010•Andrew Miller

England fix their eyes on the summit

Summits are not reached at speed, but with small, steady steps until the goal is reached

03-Jan-2010•Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town

Kallis quashes Durban demons

Had Graeme Smith had been caught off Graham Onions' first ball of the match, South Africa's day could have unravelled amid memories of their Durban demise

03-Jan-2010•Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town

Mohammad Asif: A master strategist

In each and every spell of Mohammad Asif's there remains a threat, a leg-before appeal, a play and a miss, an edge. He carries the sense every ball that something very clever he has been working on is just about to, or has almost come off

03-Jan-2010•Osman Samiuddin at the SCG

An unexpected and memorable comeback

For a good hour on a gloomy, memorable day, Mohammad Sami suddenly was again what he promised long, long ago: Pakistan fast bowling's next big thing

03-Jan-2010•Osman Samiuddin at the SCG

Ricky Ponting pays heavily for overconfidence

The Australian captain's decision to bat on a testing surface was a result of an overestimation of his team's abilities

03-Jan-2010•Peter English at the SCG

Rays of hope in a decade of decline

Tony Cozier recounts the memorable moments and phases in West Indies cricket during a decade of struggles

03-Jan-2010•Tony Cozier

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