Matches (20)

AUS vs SA (1)

AUS-WA vs IND-WA (1)

Women's Hundred (2)

CPL (3)

Men's Hundred (2)

One-Day Cup (8)

Top End T20 (3)

AUS

431/2

(24.5/50 ov, T:432) 155

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INA-W

299 & 286

AUA-W

(T:281) 305 & 283/4

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Alphabetically sorted top ten of players who have played the most matches across formats in the last 12 months

Has there ever been a Test innings in which all ten wickets were out caught?

And how often have the highest individual scores in an innings come from Nos. 9, 10 and 11?

21-Jan-2025•Steven Lynch

Has any other player started his career with as many international wins as Deepak Hooda's 17?

And how often has a team lost an ODI despite a hundred and a five-for?

05-Sep-2022•Steven Lynch

How do the top players compare with Don Bradman and Sydney Barnes?

A look at the best streaks of elite batters and bowlers versus the gold standard

07-Aug-2021•Anantha Narayanan

Which players bucked cricket's statistical trends most notably?

Meet the innings specialists, the away artists, the conversion masters, the batting-order yo-yos, and more

25-Mar-2021•Anantha Narayanan

Who's in our retro T20 XI? Sobers, Richards, Bradman… oh, wait

Our panel picks a team of 12 players who never played a T20 but would take to the format with ease

18-Oct-2020•Sreshth Shah

Why Steven Smith's 2019 Ashes batting performance is the greatest of all time in a series

The best batting, bowling and all-round performances in series, ranked, taking into account opposition strength and the pitch conditions

10-Oct-2020•Anantha Narayanan

Did Kapil Dev really end his career as poorly as people believe he did?

A look at how players did in the last 10% of their careers compared to the first 90%

12-Sep-2020•Anantha Narayanan

Home and away: bowlers who travel well and those who don't

How much better do Jadeja and Rabada perform at home than they do abroad? Do fast bowlers fare better in Asia than spinners? Can anybody touch Syd Barnes?

07-Dec-2019•Anantha Narayanan

Players who said goodbye on a high v those who faded away

A look at the last ten Tests of players' careers, and how they compare with their averages through the rest of their careers

10-Dec-2016•Anantha Narayanan

Curtly a foreigner in no land

A measure to judge how good a bowler is, especially overseas

10-Sep-2016•Anantha Narayanan

Magnificent Martin and jaunty Jack

We remember the great New Zealand batsman. And look at Test records that have stood for 94 years and two months

03-Mar-2016•Andy Zaltzman

Which is the finest bowling pair?

New-ball partners, spin twins, pace-spin combos, duos drawn from quartets: doesn't matter, give us the finest pair of bowlers ever, we said to our panel, and they did just that

03-Aug-2014

Fiery Syd

Sydney Barnes, the most feared bowler of them all, was a colourful, forbidding and often misunderstood character who wouldn't have been out of place in the modern game

18-Dec-2013•Rob Steen

The Barnes standard

Many consider Sydney Barnes the best bowler in Test history. Which bowlers match him?

16-Sep-2013•Kartikeya Date

Turn back the clock

Revisiting the forgotten art of medium-pace spin, purveyed a century ago to extraordinary effect by Sydney Barnes

04-Jun-2013•Amol Rajan

How the bowlers started and finished

An analysis of how well or poorly the leading Test bowlers started and finished their illustrious careers

01-Jun-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Old gold

England's all-time team has just two players from the last 30 years

27-Aug-2009•Andrew Miller

Pietersen makes all-time England XI

One contemporary star lines up alongside greats including Hobbs, Hutton, Barnes and Larwood in England's side

27-Aug-2009•Cricinfo staff

Different era, same brilliance ... Pt 2

A second batch of XI players from the past who would have excelled at Twenty20

19-Sep-2007•Martin Williamson and Siddarth Ravindran

Was Barnes the greatest bowler of all time?

David Frith speaks to former England bowler Sydney Barnes whose 49 wickets against South Africa in 1913-14 is still the record for most wickets in a series

14-Aug-2007•David Frith

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