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In a way M Vijay and Abhinav Mukund have been to Tamil Nadu what Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir have been to India. They are a right-hand-left-hand combination who score fast and run well between the wickets

After over a decade of unstinting dominance, Australia were finally brought down to earth

Cricinfo's senior editors on the best passages of cricket they watched in 2008

Ireland and Scotland fared well, while Bermuda, Kenya, Canada and Netherlands plumbed the depths

Funding has never been better, but ironically, it is now harder for the Associates and Affiliates to join cricket's elite than before

Ajinkya Rahane needs 24 runs to reach the 1000-run mark for the season

Chanderpaul stood head and shoulders above his middling team, and the board bumbled it's way all through

How the advent of one player promises to mark the beginning of an epoch for a country's cricket

Marauders at the top, unclassifiables below. Welcome to Cricinfo's Test and ODI teams of the year

Sanjay Manjrekar, Ian Chappell and Tony Greig on the issues facing cricket in 2009

The rookies of the year, Pakistan's predicament, an idea that may have served its purpose, and one that has a way to go yet

Fewer scandals, but zero Test cricket - a more depressing year than 2007

The second instalment of our staff's selections of the best and worst from 2008

Also, Australia's decline, the effects of the IPL, and the little allrounder who made a big impression

Australia and succession were handled well, but there was a stutter in Sri Lanka

Cricinfo's experts look back on the key issues that dominated 2008

Bad hair, near-naked cheerleaders, Harold Pinter, brassy impresarios, fishing trips, lots of lolly... and some cricket as well

South Africa greats hail triumph in Australia

India lose two veterans, Australia lose their sheen

England's 2008 began in earnest in the summer, with Pietersen's ascent to the helm and Stanford's audacious overture