Matches (23)

Sri Lanka Women tour of India (1)

Vijay Hazare Trophy (19)

ILT20 (2)

BBL (1)

SL-W

128/9

IND-W

(11.5/20 ov, T:129) 129/3

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Schedule Report Series

298/8

DELHI

(30/50 ov, T:299) 245/2

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Schedule Table Series

Decade review

Who will be the Player of the Decade?

Warney or Murali? Gilly or SRT? Our all-star jury picks the cricketer of the 2000s

28-Dec-2009•S Rajesh

The world money made

Through the 2000s the BCCI has seen its power grow exponentially with its bank balance, and the rest of cricket has fallen in line, whether by choice or under duress

28-Dec-2009•Osman Samiuddin

Edgbaston and all that

England's Ashes glory, a Warne-Tendulkar battle, the advent of Twenty20: Cricinfo columnists and senior editors pick their favourite bits of the decade

24-Dec-2009

The joy-givers of the decade

Sehwag takes the bronze, Ntini the silver. The gold goes to an underdog with a social conscience and magic at his fingertips

23-Dec-2009•Rob Steen

The screen-eyed monster

The 2000s saw cricket's television economy grow unprecedentedly and begin to dictate terms like never before

23-Dec-2009•Ashok Malik

A crisis too good to waste

The ICC is struggling to remain relevant and also competing for players and money with its largest member board, the BCCI; and therein lies its possible salvation

22-Dec-2009•Gideon Haigh

Gone with the 2000s

What's common to the tubby batsman, Sharjah, and the crowd invasion? They're among the things cricket lost this decade - perhaps never to return

21-Dec-2009•Sidharth Monga

Bigger, faster, greedier

From a genteel pursuit, cricket became big business in the 2000s, and lost a lot of itself in the bargain

21-Dec-2009•Sambit Bal

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