Hate to Love

Forbidden love

Forbidden love

Cheering for MS Dhoni from across the border can be a complicated business

01-Dec-2016•Saad Shafqat

Carl's mighty promise

Carl's mighty promise

And the mightier disappointment

02-Nov-2016•BC Pires

The fly in the ointment

The fly in the ointment

To love him, to hate him or to feel something in between? When it comes to Ravi Shastri, all three results are possible

03-Oct-2016•Prem Panicker

The Lara nightmare

The Lara nightmare

A saga in which Australian hopes were repeatedly ground to dust

01-Sep-2016•Ben Pobjie

Anyone but the Blues

Anyone but the Blues

Steve Waugh was mighty focused, mighty determined. Alas, he was from New South Wales

01-Aug-2016•John Harms

A touch of Pakistani mayhem

A touch of Pakistani mayhem

Stuart Broad is easy to hate - until he conjures up one of his cathartic spells of fast bowling

01-Jul-2016•Ahmer Naqvi

The villain who wasn't

The villain who wasn't

Can you piss off a whole country and yet remain a cracking bloke? Yes, if you are Trevor Chappell

02-Jun-2016•Paul Ford

About a bully boy

About a bully boy

At his best Matthew Hayden resembled a big, nasty brute terrorising a bunch of kids. Where was the joy in that?

02-May-2016•Anthony McGowan

Cricket's greatest bastard

Cricket's greatest bastard

Bad boy WG Grace is easy to love but good boy WG Grace (and the accompanying legend) is hard to bear

01-Apr-2016•Jarrod Kimber

The genius and the clown

The genius and the clown

How Shane Warne was a delightful mix of both

02-Mar-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando

The regal brat

The regal brat

Sourav Ganguly filled you with pride - until he made you tear your hair out

02-Feb-2016•Ruchir Joshi

Steel true, blade straight

Steel true, blade straight

Alec Stewart was too perky, too dapper, too eager. But on his day, he was also a game changer

02-Dec-2015•Rob Bagchi

Liberation song

Liberation song

Kumar Sangakkara was for long the model student who knuckled down and played it safe. Then he took flight

02-Nov-2015•Shanaka Amarasinghe

The high priest of the eccentrics

The high priest of the eccentrics

During Australian cricket's most volatile decade few tickled the imagination like Greg Matthews

02-Oct-2015•Aaron Timms

Enemy No. 1

Enemy No. 1

Yet it was hard not to love Javed Miandad

02-Sep-2015•Rajdeep Sardesai

A grump among the punks

A grump among the punks

John Edrich was a legend at Surrey but when he captained a team of young pretenders, he was cast adrift

03-Aug-2015•Alan Butcher

Daryll and I

Daryll and I

How a hero turned sourpuss - before transforming into an expert who seeks no favour

02-Jul-2015•Telford Vice

Chilling, not thrilling

Chilling, not thrilling

More runs than Lara, more wickets than Holding. Still, Jacques Kallis left you cold

03-Jun-2015•Mike Jakeman

Large and in charge

Large and in charge

Defiant, passionate, cunning - Arjuna Ranatunga was a mighty tough cookie on the field and an unwavering friend off it

04-May-2015•Martin Crowe

The great Gattsby

The great Gattsby

In the shadow of Botham, Gooch and Gower, Mike Gatting is an unfortunate reminder of a very English kind of failure

07-Apr-2015•Barney Ronay

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