Features

Munaf and O'Brien face off, and Tom tees off

Plays of the day for day two of the third Test between New Zealand and India in Wellington

04-Apr-2009•Sidharth Monga in Wellington

Underdogs no more

A dry but much needed account of Sri Lanka's startling ascent to the summit

04-Apr-2009•Daniel Brigham

Wellington boys exploit the conditions

James Franklin and Iain O'Brien put pressure on India with testing spells

03-Apr-2009•Sidharth Monga in Wellington

Harbhajan rides his luck

Harbhajan Singh has scored five Test fifties since the start of 2008 and India have lost only one of those games. Four of those have come against Australia. Coming in at 204 for 6 today after a good start had been wasted on the first day of a series-decid

03-Apr-2009•Sidharth Monga in Wellington

Fascinating cricket

Down here at the Basin Reserve a wide swinging delivery in the fourth over was crashed over point for six; the fifty was brought up in the 10th over

03-Apr-2009•Sidharth Monga in Wellington

Done on the development trail

Cricket has had a long and loyal following, born not only out of the village greens of England or the dusty Indian maidans, but the war-torn wastelands of Afghanistan and a spare scrap of land in Canada

02-Apr-2009•Will Luke in Potchefstroom

Final Test, final frontier

It has been 42 days since India arrived in Christchurch - on February 20, exactly 41 years to the day they first won a Test in New Zealand - to set right what they believed was an aberration

02-Apr-2009•Sidharth Monga in Wellington

Baggage claim

An emblem for a nation, he came to be defined by one stark image… and for one boy growing up in Zimbabwe at the time, an item of cricket kit

02-Apr-2009•Dan Nicholl

India's least favourite venue

India have lost the last four times they've turned up for a Test at the Basin Reserve, and some of their heaviest defeats against New Zealand have been at this ground

01-Apr-2009•S Rajesh

The oldest debutants, and high scores without hundreds

The biggest team scores in Tests to not contain centuries, the youngest to the 300-3000 double, and the most hit-wicket dismissals

31-Mar-2009•Steven Lynch

New Zealand lose perfect home record

Stats highlights from the second Test between New Zealand and India, which ended in a high-scoring draw in Napier

30-Mar-2009•S Rajesh

Assured Laxman walks the talk

There is such assurance and positivity about whatever Laxman does

30-Mar-2009•Sidharth Monga in Napier

Same Eden, different ground

A history lesson from Auckland, the Naked Bus, and Munaf goes native

30-Mar-2009•Sidharth Monga

A big moment for 'little' Gambhir

The Napier Test has not yet been saved, but Gambhir has been instrumental in India taking that big step towards doing it, and he has made sure he is there to try and take the final steps as well

29-Mar-2009•Sidharth Monga in Napier

Does anyone care?

Does anyone around the negotiating table care? Is anyone asking just what would be achieved by a boycott in St.Lucia except to deprive fans there of cheering a West Indies team at last making everyone proud again?

29-Mar-2009•Tony Cozier

The case of the brittle Kiwi

Why does New Zealand produce so many fast bowlers who promise the moon and then break down with injury and vanish off the scene?

29-Mar-2009•Sidharth Monga

A lesson in perseverance

With 619 on the board for New Zealand, the third day was going to be one where the pitch would be taken out of the equation. It was going to be a day decided by mental and physical battles

28-Mar-2009•Sidharth Monga in Napier

Eyes off the ball

A hotchpotch collection of articles on West Indies through the years that tends to play and miss

28-Mar-2009•Darcus Howe

Let down by fielding and intensity

This Indian team has taken giant strides over the last year and a half, but when the pitch is flat, and when the batsmen are hard to dislodge, they seem to switch off

27-Mar-2009•Sidharth Monga in Napier

One man's instinct, or a vote?

26-Mar-2009•Dileep Premachandran

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