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A bad day at the office for Murali

A bad day at the office for Murali

The 67 runs Muttiah Muralitharan conceded in the first VB Series match against Australia is his second-most expensive figures in ODIs

13-Jan-2006•S Rajesh

Inzy's Lahore run fest

Inzy's Lahore run fest

Rahul Dravid has the opportunity to become the first Indian captain to win a Test at Lahore when the series gets underway on Friday the 13th

12-Jan-2006•George Binoy

Players to watch

Players to watch

Osman Samiuddin and Dileep Premachandran pick their three players to watch

12-Jan-2006•Osman Samiuddin and Dileep Premachandran

Key battles

Key battles

Can Virender Sehwag dominate Shoaib Akhtar like he did the last time the two played? Can Inzamam-ul-Haq thwart the Anil Kumble menace?

10-Jan-2006•S Rajesh

When declarations attack

When declarations attack

Records tumble at Sydney

07-Jan-2006•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Pride before a fall

Pride before a fall

Five occasions when declarations backfired

06-Jan-2006•Andrew Miller

MacGill takes 50 at the SCG

MacGill takes 50 at the SCG

Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince established a new record for the fourth wicket for South Africa against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground

03-Jan-2006•Kanishkaa Balachandran

A champion at No.3

A champion at No.3

Ricky Ponting's journey as a Test batsman began almost exactly ten years back, and he's come a long way in that period

01-Jan-2006•S Rajesh

Aussies aiming for seven in a row

Aussies aiming for seven in a row

A lowdown on the MCG, where Australia have won the last six Tests

24-Dec-2005•Cricinfo staff

A chronicle of underachievement

A chronicle of underachievement

The end could not have been sadder, swifter or lamer. Sri Lanka's thumping defeat at Ahmedabad sealed a disastrous end-of-tour report and once again highlighted their chronic fallibility overseas

22-Dec-2005•Charlie Austin

One hundred and counting for Kumble

One hundred and counting for Kumble

When Anil Kumble takes the field for the final Test at Ahmedabad, he will become the second spinner to have played 100 Tests

17-Dec-2005•George Binoy

End of a long wait

End of a long wait

Wasim Jaffer was pleasantly surprised after being recalled to the Indian side but few will resent him being given another chance, after his gluttonous run-scoring on the domestic circuit

14-Dec-2005•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Blame the selectors

Blame the selectors

India's winning margin, a walloping 188 runs, makes depressing reading from a Sri Lankan perspective

14-Dec-2005•Charlie Austin

Pathan's batting lesson to the top order

Pathan's batting lesson to the top order

How Irfan Pathan's straight-bat approach paid dividends

12-Dec-2005•On the Ball with S Rajesh

The Vaas story in numbers

The Vaas story in numbers

He has played the support act to a certain spin wizard called Muttiah Muralitharan almost all his career, but Chaminda Vaas's contribution to Sri Lankan cricket has been immense

12-Dec-2005•S Rajesh

Tendulkar's journey in numbers

Tendulkar's journey in numbers

A stats analysis of Sachin Tendulkar's 35 Test centuries

10-Dec-2005•S Rajesh

Kumble's playground

Kumble's playground

A lowdown on Feroz Shah Kotla, the venue for the second Test between India and Sri Lanka

09-Dec-2005•Cricinfo staff

Falling short by a whisker

Falling short by a whisker

Cricinfo looks at some of the other nailbiters between these Australia and New Zealand over the years

07-Dec-2005•Cricinfo staff

The Lara story in numbers

The Lara story in numbers

Numbers might not do full justice to the genius that is Brian Lara, but they do offer a offer a good indication of his vast talents

26-Nov-2005•S Rajesh

One more added to a bag of records

One more added to a bag of records

With a superb double-century Brian Lara went past Allan Border's 11,174 runs in the third Test at Adelaide to break the record for most Test runs

26-Nov-2005•George Binoy

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