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Blossom in a bed of weeds

Mohammad Ashraful's rousing knock, easily the best of the series, beat back the ghosts that have haunted Bangladesh, but coult not do anything to alter the result

19-Dec-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Anand Vasu in Chittagong

India on the threshold of victory despite Ashraful heroics

Bangladesh scored 397 runs in the day, yet found themselves facing certain defeat after Irfan Pathan ripped through the top order in the second innings

19-Dec-2004•The Bulletin by Rahul Bhatia

'I'm disappointed that I could not save my team' - Ashraful

Quotes from Mohammad Ashraful and Irfan Pathan

19-Dec-2004•Anand Vasu in Chittagong

'We will take nothing for granted,' says Wright

Bangladesh's second Test against India starts at Chittagong on Friday (Dec 17)

15-Dec-2004•Anand Vasu in Chittagong

'Pathan is getting better with every game'

Sourav Ganguly, on the road to recovery from the fever that kept him off the field for the whole of the third day of the first Test, spoke to the media after India's emphatic win at Dhaka

13-Dec-2004•Anand Vasu in Dhaka

Pathan wraps up comprehensive win

After valiant hitting by Manjural Islam (69) and Tapash Baisya, Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan struck to dismiss Bangladesh for 202, giving India victory by an innings and 140 runs

13-Dec-2004•The Bulletin by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Tendulkar and Pathan put India on the brink

Fighting half-centuries by Nafis Iqbal and Manjural Islam Rana saved Bangladesh from acute embarrassment, but India's continued to push for an inevitable innings victory

12-Dec-2004•The Bulletin by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Disenchanting the Dhaka crowd

Tendulkar scoring a century and more, reprieves notwithstanding, is bearable, but Zaheer Khan clattering the ball around the park merrily, and realistically harbouring ambitions of reaching three figures was too much for the Dhaka crowd to take

12-Dec-2004•Roving Reporter by Anand Vasu in Dhaka

Twenty is plenty

After an unusual beginning - the Test getting delayed by a couple of hours by dew and Sourav Ganguly winning the toss - the first day followed the script

10-Dec-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Sambit Bal

Pathan takes five as Bangladesh fold for 184

History was made at the Bangabandhu Stadium at Dhaka as Anil Kumble scaled Indian bowling's Mount Everest on a day when Bangladesh staggered against incisive left-arm swing

10-Dec-2004•The Bulletin by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

India inch past South Africa

India's batsmen struggled against some disciplined South African bowling on the third day of the second Test at Kolkata but managed to secure a 54-run lead

30-Nov-2004•The Bulletin by Rahul Bhatia

'It's good that the pacemen took wickets' - Smith

The loss of five wickets for 227 notwithstanding, Graeme Smith soundedpositive at the post-day press conference

28-Nov-2004•Chandrahas Choudhury at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata

Indians under pressure to deliver

Frustrated in equal measure by South Africa's obdurate batsmen and by a benign pitch at Kanpur, Sourav Ganguly's Indian team, overwhelming favourites before the series, are under pressure to produce a win in the final Test of the series, at the Eden

27-Nov-2004•Preview by Chandrahas Choudhury in Kolkata

Short-sighted tradition

Guileful slow bowling and attractive shotmaking have been the leitmotifs of Indian cricket since the halcyon days of Palwankar Baloo and CK Nayudu, but there have been times when the adherence to tradition has prevented the national side from

20-Nov-2004•Analysis by Dileep Premachandran

Tatas to safeguard player's interests

Tata Teleservices Ltd, the company that caused Sourav Ganguly and Irfan Pathan to be dragged into the ambush-marketing imbroglio, has said that it would act to safeguard the interest of the two players

15-Sep-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Ganguly and Pathan in ambush-marketing controversy

The International Cricket Council has sent a letter to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, bringing to their attention an infringement of the ambush-marketing clause in the player contracts for the ICC Champions Trophy

13-Sep-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Flintoff named as ICC's One-Day Player of the Year

Andrew Flintoff rounded off an eventful week by winning the One-Day Player of the Year prize at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony at Alexandra Palace in London on Tuesday night

08-Sep-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Pakistan in the ascendancy?

Wisden Cricinfo previews the runners and riders in Pool C of the Champions Trophy

08-Sep-2004

Rahul Dravid is the ICC's player of the year

Rahul Dravid picked up both the Test Player of the Year, and the Player of the Year at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony at Alexandra Palace in London on Tuesday night

07-Sep-2004

India's seamers come to the party

In the end, England's woeful start came back to haunt them

05-Sep-2004•The Bulletin by Liam Brickhill

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