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In Uttar Pradesh's championship season, when Praveen Kumar first came to prominence, he was easily the player of the year: 41 wickets and 386 runs, four five-fors, one 10-for, and three half-centuries

Munaf Patel recently said that he was not bothered with speed, but to bowl at 130kph you either need to be a McGrath or a Pollock or the batsmen need to club-class

Shaun Pollock suits the role of the pinch-hitter, technically competent enough to bat at various tempos and in different situations. With that in mind, it wasn't such a surprise to see him coming in one down here

Suresh Raina needed to make a statement and his matchwining 92 highlighted his maturity as a cricketer

An outline of the major players and main events during the game's most emotive series

Like a swearword or a jailed relative, Zimbabwe has become unmentionable in South African cricket circles.

Captains keeping and scoring hundreds; and most runs scored in the first and last 10 overs

Why Jardine's leg theory was almost uniquely a product of its age

For Panesar, everything beyond the day-to-day business of preparing for cricket, playing cricket and recovering from playing cricket is pretty much irrelevant - including, presumably, his book

Flair and natural talent takes you a long way. But neither will ever take you all the way if the basics of winning cricket are not already in place

Stats highlights from the seventh ODI between India and Australia, at Mumbai

Seven fronline left-armers in an ODI, six-less careers, most captains in a side and more

Stats highlights from the sixth ODI between India and Australia in Nagpur

While clearly a British-oriented product, virtually all of cricket life is there in this primer for young fans

A statistical look at Inzamam-ul-Haq's Test career

EW Swanton reviews Assault On The Ashes by Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Inzamam-ul-Haq may not have kept it all together all the time; he couldn't. But he was there through all of it, the highs, the lows, the thick, the thin: a reassurance

Stats highlights from the fifth ODI between India and Australia in Vadodara

A statistical look-back at Sachin Tendulkar's career in ODIs