Golden Pairs

Test match

How would two modern masters fare against the fastest bowlers of the 70s?

06-Apr-2009•Sambit Bal

Mixed Ashes

In which The Don and Ranji take on Barnes and Lillee

23-Mar-2009•Steven Lynch

Chin music for the maestros

Mean South African bowlers v rampaging Caribbean batsmen? Bring it on

23-Feb-2009•Robert Houwing

Aesthetics above all

Four players who thrilled the senses like few could

02-Feb-2009•Rob Steen

A prince, a Pom, two Aussies

Oh to see old faithfuls in living colour

06-Jan-2009•David Frith

Against the turn

Great batsmen facing fine spinners: now that's what I call a contest

05-Dec-2008•Tony Becca

The hook's the draw

McCabe and Harvey against Ambrose and O'Reilly

14-Nov-2008•Peter English

Trial by water, trial by fire

Two English legends against two of the greatest bowlers ever

14-Oct-2008•John Stern

Please please me

Four players you could watch bat for duck or bowl 90 overs for no wickets

19-Sep-2008•BC Pires

Fire v fire

Two of the greatest attacking batsmen ever, up against a man who loved to see blood on the pitch and a spinner who thought like a fast bowler

12-Aug-2008•Rajan Bala

Tough customers

The joys of sitting back and watching the sparks fly as a bunch of hard cases take each other on

15-Jul-2008•Lawrence Booth

Stranglers and swordsmen

The King and Pollock, up against Murali and Pidge

26-Apr-2008•Dileep Premachandran

Three dazzlers and one dour old pro

Headley and Sathasivam take on Barnes and Marshall

01-Apr-2008•Mike Marqusee

Assault and poetry

Laxman's rubber wrists v the Big Bird's bounce, and two masters of war

28-Feb-2008•Soumya Bhattacharya

Two tribes go to war

Langer and Hayden would fight like hell, but facing Holding and Marshall must have been worse than hell itself

01-Jan-2007•Kamran Abbasi

Little masterclass

Top-handed Gavaskar and bottom-handed Tendulkar against the steepling bounce of Thomson, and Murali's doosra

01-Jan-2007•Harsha Bhogle

Aussie all-stars

Would Victor dare to take Lillee from off stump over square leg? Would Archie have the temerity to advance to Warne as he revelled in doing to the slow bowlers of his day?

01-Aug-2006•Mike Coward

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