Country Reviews 2014

An era ends

In 2014, South Africa knocked over a fortress but also said goodbye to two colossus players

06-Jan-2015•Firdose Moonda

Triumph, tragedy and growth

Australia experienced extremes on and off the field, but the biggest takeaway was their strength of character in the aftermath of Phillip Hughes' death

05-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Trouble behind closed doors

The fallout of the withdrawal from the India tour, captaincy changes, and lack of clarity on the future of some senior players made it a bleak year for West Indies

04-Jan-2015•Garth Wattley

Lambs abroad

A young Test side showed some steel and engineered a famous win but missed several opportunities to establish dominance

03-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Wonder year

Scarcely believable Test wins, a world title, and a captain who turned into an assured leader - Sri Lanka's 2014 was seriously good

02-Jan-2015•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Back in black

Away Test wins, rescue acts, ODI series victories against top teams and a captain leading by example: New Zealand have reasons to feel bullish

01-Jan-2015•Andrew Alderson

The case of the shrinking horizons

Even as the ICC claimed to envision a bigger, more global game, the decisions it took in 2014 further stifled even the overachievers among the Associates

31-Dec-2014•Tim Wigmore

Playing like pros

With cricket boards awarding annual contracts, women's cricket is becoming increasingly lucrative. On the field, it was a year of notable upsets

30-Dec-2014•Raf Nicholson

Awesome in whites, awful in colour

Pakistan's year oscillated between superb and dreadful, with their ODI form particularly worrying ahead of the World Cup

29-Dec-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Late highs fail to mask wretched year

Save for the rout of Zimbabwe and a few individual gains, 2014 was a year of resignations, bans, suspensions and demoralising defeats for Bangladesh

28-Dec-2014•Mohammad Isam

Walking up the down escalator

Player strikes, defeats against fellow minnows, and mountains of debt for the board marked another grim year

27-Dec-2014•Liam Brickhill

Hangovers and headaches

Embarrassing defeats, a beleaguered captain, a bitter former star, alienating administrators - England's year was gloomy to say the least

26-Dec-2014•George Dobell

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Country Reviews 2014

Vithushan Ehantharajah

Alagappan Muthu

Osman Samiuddin

S Rajesh

Mohammad Isam