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Strain shows on Ponting

The Australia captain missed a run out, dropped a catch and has much to ponder

18-Jul-2009•Peter English at Lord's

One of the greatest Ashes match-winners

A stats analysis of Dennis Lillee's Ashes career

18-Jul-2009•S Rajesh

Speedy Harry

Was Bodyline's chief protagonist the quickest ever? Duncan Hamilton does a good job of convincing us

18-Jul-2009•Steven Lynch

Anderson shows Australia he's arrived

England's attack-leader showed the tourists how far he has come with a fine all-round display

17-Jul-2009•Andrew Miller at Lord's

No sympathy for careless Australia

The visitors carried on batting as though still in Cardiff, without realising different conditions needed a change in attitude and style

17-Jul-2009•Peter English at Lord's

Swinging to the top

Ben Hilfenhaus bent the ball, toyed with batsmen and showed Australia they have a swing bowler they can start to depend on

17-Jul-2009•Peter English at Lord's

The quiet Australian

A no-frills colossus who gritted his teeth, got down to it and stayed around till the bitter end. A salute to Allan Border, with Ricky Ponting on the verge of overtaking him as his country's leading Test run-scorer

17-Jul-2009•Christian Ryan

The weight of history

Australia's raw attack struggled to cope with pressure of play at Lord's, but apart from Andrew Strauss England failed to make them pay

16-Jul-2009•Andrew Miller at Lord's

Nowhere to hide for Johnson

The left-arm quick arrived for the Ashes with a huge reputation, but is battling with technical and mental issues

16-Jul-2009•Peter English at Lord's

Batsmen offer England hope

Stats preview to the second Test between England and Australia, at Lord's

15-Jul-2009•S Rajesh

Younis rues his moment of madness

The flawed reverse-sweep will not stop replaying in Younis Khan's head for a while. It will haunt

14-Jul-2009•Sidharth Monga at the P Sara Oval

Kulasekara finds his range

Cricinfo looks at some of the other stats highlights from the second Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan

14-Jul-2009•S Rajesh

Four tons in an innings, and starting big but losing

Four-thirty-five and losing, Pakistan's lowest Test totals, and the most prolific Australian

14-Jul-2009•Steven Lynch

Legends of the fall

Perhaps one collapse in a Test had become boring, so Sri Lanka and Pakistan produced two here

13-Jul-2009•Sidharth Monga in Colombo

A tale of two prophecies

This was not a day to ask questions. This was a day to believe, like Fawad Alam did

13-Jul-2009•Sidharth Monga in Colombo

Thieving cats, suicidal drivers

It's hot in Colombo, small animals are after your dinner in Galle, and security staff are sticklers for dress codes

13-Jul-2009•Sidharth Monga

The 'tenacious little redhead' does it again

Defeat today might not have been as painful for England as a collective, given how little of the match they had actually commanded, but for Paul Collingwood personally it would have been a low without compare

12-Jul-2009•Andrew Miller at Cardiff

England escape; the Ashes are ablaze

The 2009 Ashes are officially alive. But though England will draw encouragement from their great escape, much more is needed from their marquee batsmen

12-Jul-2009•Alex Brown at Cardiff

Sorry, Haury

A letter of apology to Nathan Hauritz from The Hauritzer Fan Club

12-Jul-2009•Peter English at Cardiff

Enigmatic Pakistan confound again

Pakistan cricket doesn't lend itself to analysing. For nobody yet knows what motivates its cricketers, or what brings them down.

12-Jul-2009•Sidharth Monga in Colombo

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