Match Analysis

Malik, Akmal and the mad clown joy ride

Twists, turns, mishaps and jailbreaks. It's all par for the course with the Pakistan batting line-up

29-Feb-2016•Alagappan Muthu in Mirpur

Sabbir's cool head and fast hands

Being involved in a run out can frazzle the mind of the batsman who survives, but the maturity of Bangladesh's No. 3 came to the fore as he responded with a stirring counterattack

28-Feb-2016•Mohammad Isam in Mirpur

Bumrah and Pandya - India's missing links

Both players are of a recent vintage - 22-years-old in life, one-month-old in international cricket - and both of them are vital going forward

27-Feb-2016•Alagappan Muthu in Mirpur

Kohli v Amir I - A gripping duel

It may have lasted only 15 balls, but their electric contest was the treat of the match

27-Feb-2016•Mohammad Isam in Mirpur

'Minus Malinga, we could've won this game' - Aaqib Javed

They began to dream, they began to hope, they even forced Sri Lanka to plummet to their lowest ever total against an Associate nation in T20Is. With another 15 runs, UAE could have had their first ever win against a Test nation

25-Feb-2016•Alagappan Muthu in Mirpur

Mature Iyer underlines importance in Mumbai set-up

Relying on instinct and a game without half-measures, Shreyas Iyer capped off a prolific season with a crucial hundred in a high-pressure match

25-Feb-2016•Shashank Kishore in Pune

Usman typifies UAE's unlikely lads

A clean sweep in the qualifying stages of the Asia Cup continues a remarkable turnaround in fortunes and now a few companies will be missing employees for a little longer

22-Feb-2016•Alagappan Muthu in Mirpur

A day of cricket and calm

Given the poignancy surrounding the fifth anniversary of the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake, a day of conventional Test cricket seemed fitting

22-Feb-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Christchurch

The century the PSL needed

Sharjeel Khan treated quick bowlers and spinners with equal disdain as he hammered the first century of the PSL

22-Feb-2016•Nagraj Gollapudi in Dubai

'Hero' Naveed happy to put on a show

From his early days of playing tape-ball cricket, to hitting Dale Steyn for a six in ODIs, Mohammad Naveed has come a long way

21-Feb-2016•Alagappan Muthu in Fatullah

Burns steps out of the shadows

A consistent Joe Burns has always been overshadowed in Australia's power-packed batting line-up and he needed a century like the one in Christchurch to confirm his credentials

21-Feb-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Christchurch

Irfan's early chokehold, Karachi's lack of muscle

Key talking points of the PSL 2016 eliminator between Islamabad United and Karachi Kings

21-Feb-2016•Nagraj Gollapudi

Afghanistan and their box-office pull

On a must-win night, Afghanistan's flair caught the eye, but it almost cost them the match

20-Feb-2016•Alagappan Muthu in Fatullah

McCullum swings to his destiny

For a batsman whose Test hundreds had got incrementally faster and faster, there was a sense of inevitability to Brendon McCullum's 54-ball century in Christchurch

20-Feb-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Christchurch

The dream delivery, and a fine final over

Five takeaways from Quetta Gladiators' thrilling last-ball win against Peshawar Zalmi

20-Feb-2016•Nagraj Gollapudi

Oman stay cool in face of Hayat's hot bat

Over the last eight months, Oman has demonstrated an invaluable capability to ignore pressure and execute the basics in crunch time, traits that were on display again in a hair-raising victory over Hong Kong

20-Feb-2016•Alagappan Muthu in Fatullah

Australia cash in on New Zealand's misses and misfortunes

New Zealand might have been unlucky with the Adam Voges reprieve on day one, but for the rest of the Test, Australia and New Zealand made their own luck

15-Feb-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Wellington

Basin Reserve record gives New Zealand glimmer

New Zealand have had to adopt a philosophical approach in this Test as Adam Voges piled up 239 after wrongly being given not out on 7, and that approach will have to extend into day four as they fight to save the match

14-Feb-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Wellington

Discipline powers Voges' extraordinary run

A batsman is doing well if he ever breaks a record set by either Don Bradman or Sachin Tendulkar in his entire career; Adam Voges squeezed them both into a single day

13-Feb-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Wellington

Dhawan expands his leg-side game

For a long time, Shikhar Dhawan struggled to put balls away off the pads, and though he is still not a classic on-driver, his leg-side play has improved considerably over the past year

12-Feb-2016•Sidharth Monga in Ranchi

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