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A statistical look at Shaun Pollock's Test career

After several umpiring errors in the Sydney Test, an official protest from the Indian board saw the unprecedented step of an umpire, Steve Bucknor, being sacked from the next Test. A selection of the reactions that provoked.

Stephen Fleming looks back at ten years in charge of New Zealand and reflects on the difficult art of captaincy, his role models, and why his country doesn't produce top-class players nearly as often as it would like to

Stats preview to the third Test between South Africa and West Indies in Durban

Seven for seven in an innings, the first hat-trick in women's cricket, a 75-minute century - Betty Wilson, Australian allrounder extraordinaire of the 1950s, did it all and more in a career spanning just 11 Tests

More technology or less? The ICC's proposed new system of referring contentious umpiring decisions may have its pros and cons in about equal measure, but it needs to be given a fair run

A six-hour Test, a unique double, the most maidens on the trot, most runs at an away venue, and a man nicknamed Death

Sidharth Monga looks into the reasons why domestic batsmen come up short on sporting pitches

India had an eventful, often turbulent year, marked by all kinds of leadership-related turmoil, but it was a surprisingly successful one as well

Stats highlights from the fifth day of the Sydney Test between Australia and India

Ugly might be an understatement to describe events on the final day in the SCG. A potentially cracking Test match was botched, an open series was all but shut and the beautiful scenes that the game produced were forgotten

A cultured World Cup classic; one captain comes, another goes; a Boxing Day miracle, and more: in the fourth part of our staffers' picks of the best and worst of 2007

From Murali's record to Australia's records, rare milestones to hot streaks, and more. A look back at the statistical highlights of 2007

South Africa flirted with catastrophe in Tests, and lost the plot on the biggest stage in the limited-overs game

Stats highlights from the fourth day of the Sydney Test between Australia and India

Siddhartha Vaidhyanathan on Australia's defiance of India's spinners on a turning pitch

They said Australia would suffer the losses of key players. They were wrong, and how

It looked like he had been passed over in favour of his former team-mate Matt Prior. Not quite. Tim Ambrose is England's surprise choice for the wicketkeeper's spot in the squad for New Zealand

The England selectors named two 16-man squads for the forthcoming ODI and Test series in New Zealand and a 13-man England Lions squad to tour India

Readers drawn to James by his writing on cricket will learn a lot more from this book about the man who was a confidant of the likes of Trotsky and Nkrumah