Match Analysis

Imagine there's a future for Test cricket ... it's easy if you try

Given a fair contest between bat and ball, and the oxygen of publicity, Test cricket can hold its own with Love Island, the Kardashians, or any entertainment in the modern world

03-Aug-2018•George Dobell at Edgbaston

Ishant Sharma, India's slim Atlas

Ishant Sharma has spent a decade being under-estimated. But after a summer with Sussex he needed a solitary over to prove his value

03-Aug-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Edgbaston

Dobell: The story of Sam Curran's precocious rise to Test cricket

No England left-arm seamer has ever taken 100 Test wickets. Sam Curran has the time and the skills to buck that trend

02-Aug-2018•George Dobell at Edgbaston

Gollapudi: Kohli fights the ego in final climb to greatness

The India captain produced a masterful display with the lower order to haul his team out of trouble and set a high benchmark for the series

02-Aug-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Edgbaston

Joe Root pays for lack of ruthlessness as costly mix-up ruins Yorkshire's day

Memories of Brisbane as England's hard work on opening day is ruined by innings-turning run-out

01-Aug-2018•George Dobell at Edgbaston

R Ashwin learns his lines quickly to steal the show on opening night

Aided by the admirable Mohammed Shami, India's senior Test spinner demonstrated his enduring worth to India

01-Aug-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Edgbaston

Another tense chase, another last-over dismissal for Mushfiqur

Harare, Bengaluru, Dehradun and now Georgetown. Each of these cities has witnessed a close Bangladesh defeat in which Mushfiqur Rahim has been out in the last over, caught on the leg-side boundary

26-Jul-2018•Mohammad Isam

The case for scrapping the toss

Could giving the away team the choice of batting or fielding first reduce the scope for overly lopsided contests on pitches heavily skewed in the home side's favour?

21-Jul-2018•Andrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

Maharaj buries ghosts of centuries of South Africa's spinners

The left-arm spinner did what no other South African spinner has managed in Sri Lanka - not get punished in spin-friendly conditions

20-Jul-2018•Andrew Fidel Fernando in Colombo

Adil Rashid's dip-and-rise gives Yorkshire a bittersweet afternoon

Decision to quit red-ball cricket has paid off so far in white-ball returns, even if Rashid's home county sees less of him than they'd like

17-Jul-2018•Melinda Farrell at Headingley

India 'not good enough', says Virat Kohli, as England seal 2-1 series win

Team needs to pick up performances in time for 2019 World Cup, says captain

17-Jul-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Headingley

India's happy headaches turn into real ones

From the meandering openers to Kuldeep's lost mystery, here's what went wrong for India in the ODIs against England

17-Jul-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Headingley

India must solve their middle-order muddle - the big three can't do it all

Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli have an awesome record but aside from that trio there remain question marks over India's batting line-up not least around Suresh Raina

14-Jul-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Lord's

Joe Root proves there's no need for him to change

Set alongside the performances of David Willey and Moeen Ali, this was a highly encouraging fightback from England

14-Jul-2018•George Dobell at Lord's

Did overthinking Sri Lanka's spin tricks hurt South Africa?

The Galle pitch might not have been as bad as South Africa feared - it has happened before - and in such a situation they did not seem to know how to respond

14-Jul-2018•Firdose Moonda

Thoughts from a fictitious South Africa batsman: This isn't how it was supposed to be in Sri Lanka

A fictitious voice from the South African camp shares his thoughts on the state of affairs after a horrendous second day in Galle

13-Jul-2018•Andrew Fidel Fernando in Galle

The Achilles heel of England's World Cup hopes

The T20 series offered England hope they can work out Kuldeep Yadav but the effectiveness of wristspin counters their preferred route of flat one-day pitches

12-Jul-2018•George Dobell at Trent Bridge

Kuldeep Yadav's left-arm illegibles set England a summer-long challenge

The inability of England's batsmen to read the variations of India's wristspinner could send shockwaves through the summer

12-Jul-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Trent Bridge

Merlyn's influence negates the wizardry of Kuldeep Yadav

England took a deep-creased approach to India's mystery spinner, and it paid enough dividends to draw them level in the series

06-Jul-2018•Nagraj Gollapudi at Cardiff

Jos Buttler remains bullish after England are caught cold by Kuldeep Yadav

Penalties triumph in Moscow helps lift mood in England dressing-room after first white-ball defeat of the summer

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