The Index

An A to Z of the IPL. All together now...

Players are set to wow the audience with their (non-cricketing) talents at the inaugural IPL awards tonight. We have a list of some cricketers we'd like to see perform

If the likes of Dravid and Ponting went into politics, would the world be a better place?

Three weeks into the tournament and more than a few of us are feeling the effects of IPL fatigue. Are you one of the unfortunates thus afflicted? Our handy checklist will let you find out soon enough.

We've had moths and dogs. Here are some entertaining disruptions we'd like to see this season. Note: contains a Tendulkar tantrum

Each IPL is replaced by another, full of developments stunning and new. What better time to look back at things and people we'll miss from the previous editions?

Ten world leaders (and one rock star) and what they'd have brought to the ICC's top role

Too many players are quitting Tests to extend their career. Not cool. Here are a dozen ways to keep your whites while being injury- and stress-free

Television's Amazing Race unfailingly delivers stereotype teams each season. What if cricketers were to go on the show, we asked ourselves

Players who would survive bio-hazard disasters, nuclear war and Judgment Day

No rude gestures, no trust, no sweat: a handy guide to the UDRS for cricketers everywhere

Jonathan Trott has made few friends in the South African team by spending an eternity taking guard. Here's a list of lesser-known, practically unknown, guard-takers

An XI of tunes that are - unbeknownst to us - actually about cricket and cricketers

Likely teams that can star in the 2010 county cricket one-dayers

Behind every famous cricketer there's a formidable female relative. We look at a dozen of cricket's better-known ones

The Inzamam and Misbah odd-dismissals Hall of Fame

Eight ways England can stay grounded after their Ashes win

When asked what his favourite animal was, Steve Waugh replied, "Merv Hughes". Here are some more cricketers who could be animals

Setting effigies alight is passé. We've got a bunch of innovative ways India supporters can express their unhappiness

Movie roles that can be played by cricketers