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Cricket is about to take a leap of faith in technology with the trial of a system that allows players to challenge the decision of the on-field umpires

A statistical preview to the first Test between Sri Lanka at the SSC in Colombo

A team that loves playing at home is to play three Tests against a team that has performed well overseas in recent years - except that India are hardly a visiting side when in neighbouring Sri Lanka

Strings of fruitless overs, the other Bodyline series, top scores in each innings, and the most 190s

Graeme Smith has been here before. An overwhelming victory in very English-conditions at Headingley as South Africa take a series lead

Today marked the 27th anniversary of England completing the most famous turnaround in Test history on this ground, as Bob Willis followed Ian Botham's heroics against Australia in 1981. Suffice to say, the 2008 England vintage never threatened to pull off

Andrew McGlashan presents the plays of the fourth day at Headingley

Even when AB de VIlliers reached his century today, the packed Western Terrace of Headingley still hadn't forgiven him for his first-day non-catch

Andrew McGlashan presents the plays of the third day at Headingley

The backdrop to Joseph O'Neill's acclaimed new novel is New York's seedy cricket subculture, where the search for meaning is deceptively infectious, if ultimately futile

The dark, foreboding clouds that encircled Headingley during the final session could well have represented the feeling in England's bowling attack

If England's attack didn't know much about Ashwell Prince before this series, they are more than familiar with his skills now after his second successive hundred

On the fightback at Lord's and looking forward to the second Test

If you were a schoolboy in Gloucestershire in the 1970s, there was no question who you wanted to be

Unfortunate records at the home of cricket, a hundred and a five-for on debut, and more

This was a stultifying day's cricket that did no favours to the Test format

The three innings to date of this Lord's Test have played out like some convoluted brainteaser

Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie mounted the most monumental of fightbacks on the fourth day at Lord's. Even if South Africa do lose the Test, they wouldn't have gone down without a fight. And more than anything else, Test cricket is alive and well, argues

Andrew Miller presents the plays of the fourth day between England and South Africa at Lord's

None of the centurions in this match, not even Kevin Pietersen, leapt as high or celebrated as proudly as Ashwell Prince did on the third day at Lord's