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Match Analysis

Pakistan face up to home truths

Stultifying cricket has been the order of the day in Abu Dhabi as bowlers from both England and Pakistan have toiled in turn

16-Oct-2015•Umar Farooq

Cook's endurance feat does not disguise harsh realities

Alastair Cook's innings - the third longest in Test history - was a stunning feat of endurance, but nothing should deflect from the recognition that this pitch is bad for the game

16-Oct-2015•Andrew McGlashan

Kaushal shakes and rattles while Herath rocks and rolls

Tharindu Kaushal and Rangana Herath are both spin bowlers but, with one wiry and energetic and the other ambling in contentedly, they might have come from different galaxies

16-Oct-2015•Andrew Fidel Fernando in Galle

Wahab defies a barren surface

Pakistan felt Yasir Shah's absence on a lifeless pitch but they stuck to their task gamely, conceding only 234 runs in the day

15-Oct-2015•Umar Farooq

Cook and Bell grind away bad memories

Alastair Cook and Ian Bell were the only two surviving batsmen from England's horror show in the UAE three years ago but they ground away the memories as England fought back in the first Test

15-Oct-2015•Andrew McGlashan

West Indies caught in Galle's sweaty embrace

West Indies succumbed to Galle's humidity as chances went down and Sri Lanka's score mounted inexorably on the second day of the first Test

15-Oct-2015•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Calm Dhoni towers above the chaos

After a difficult week in which his very place in the team was being questioned, he answered back with an innings of hope, skill and defiance

14-Oct-2015•Alagappan Muthu in Indore

Invaluable Shafiq shows Pakistan's calmer face

Asad Shafiq might be one of the more understated members of the Pakistan side but on the ground where his Test career began he proved his worth again with his eighth Test hundred

14-Oct-2015•Umar Farooq

Rashid endures the most taxing of debuts

Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid suffered the most unrewarding innings in Test history for a spin bowling combination as Pakistan milked them unforgivingly on a placid surface

14-Oct-2015•Andrew McGlashan

Sri Lanka roll out the old Galle welcome

Sri Lanka used to show tourists the delights of the Galle Coast and then impose big, bruising wins upon them. They have lost that knack, although a hundred from Dimuth Karunaratne was a reminder of old times

14-Oct-2015•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Malik's century marks extraordinary comeback

Shoaib Malik has fulfilled many roles for Pakistan but his unbeaten hundred after returning from a five-year Test absence was remarkable even by his standards

13-Oct-2015•Umar Farooq

England's no-ball hell

England have overstepped the mark throughout 2015, taking six wickets which have been overturned because of no balls uncovered by the tv umpire. ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball service has logged them all

13-Oct-2015•Andrew McGlashan

England errors carry a heavy cost

England granted several batsmen a second chance during the rather farcical warm-up and, much to their chagrin when the Abu Dhabi Test started they were still at it

13-Oct-2015•Andrew McGlashan in Abu Dhabi

Rohit, de Villiers hold their own in Kanpur furnace

In the face of testing conditions, Rohit Sharma and AB de Villiers produced memorable hundreds, and on that day, neither was better than the other

11-Oct-2015•Alagappan Muthu in Kanpur

Kishan's unfettered attack nearly trips up Saurashtra

On a pitch that threw up a puff of dust from the first ball, 17-year-old Ishan Kishan's remarkable clarity of thought almost negated Saurashtra's strategy

08-Oct-2015•Sidharth Monga in Rajkot

Victory cries crescendo at Castle Corner

The Harare crowd's songs were the joyous soundtrack to a long-awaited Zimbabwe win, one that shouldn't be defined by the fiasco of its ending

03-Oct-2015•Liam Brickhill in Harare

Mishra benched in depth and dew dilemma

With India wanting a bowler who can bat at No. 7, the defensive left-arm spinner Axar Patel was preferred over the legspinner Amit Mishra in Dharamsala

03-Oct-2015•Sidharth Monga

Teams rue batting failures on tough pitch

Two almost identical T20s left Zimbabwe and Pakistan with a strong impression of the things which they did right and wrong, and both sides felt it was the batting that failed to impress

29-Sep-2015•Liam Brickhill in Harare

Weary Smith proud of Australia's resilience

Steven Smith played in every international fixture of Australia's arduous tour of the British Isles. But victory in the final ODI of the summer allows him to take a break with great satisfaction

13-Sep-2015•Andrew McGlashan at Old Trafford

Hales' slump presents selection test

Put forward as a potential Test opener, Alex Hales has endured a miserable run before the squad is anounced. But will the selectors look beyond his limited-overs form?

13-Sep-2015•Andrew McGlashan at Old Trafford

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