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Two thousand Tests, I've watched them all

Two thousand Tests, I've watched them all

Test matches burn bright in the memory whether you watched them or not

28-Jul-2011•Suresh Menon

The sport that makes the clocks melt

The sport that makes the clocks melt

In Test cricket, like in no other game, time is a protagonist. An instant can be an aeon, hours can go by in a heartbeat

26-Jul-2011•Sharda Ugra

A spinner's flight plan

The great spinners visualised their wickets and deceived the batsmen in the air. But why are today's bowling coaches almost always fast men?

24-Jul-2011•Ashley Mallett

Whites are right

Whites are right

They're evocative, they're old-timey, they're among cricket's few constants in an age of change

14-Jul-2011•Tanya Aldred

Too drained to care

Too drained to care

You don't support your side through a World Cup win and then forget all about it inside a week to cheer them as they turn out for different teams in a Twenty20 league

30-May-2011•Abhishek Purohit

It happened in '85

It happened in '85

As the 2011 season gets underway, a county cricket watcher recalls his first year travelling the Sunday League grounds of 1980s Britain with a press pass-wielding father

08-Apr-2011•Liam Herringshaw

India or Sri Lanka: whom to support?

India or Sri Lanka: whom to support?

Which team does a second-generation British Asian fan cheer for? It's not all that straightforward

02-Apr-2011•Sahil Dutta

India v Pakistan: a fantasy

India v Pakistan: a fantasy

Will the two sides meet in this World Cup? One can but live in hope

24-Mar-2011•Imran Yusuf

Hooked on torment

Hooked on torment

What are you if you switch the TV on at three in the morning knowing full well your team will probably get a pasting?

25-May-2010•Soumya Bhattacharya

Tout suite

Tout suite

You can't miss them if you're going to an Ashes Test in England: the bald, scarred, toothless gents who're dying to get you into the ground

07-Mar-2010•Jarrod Kimber

Where did opinion go?

Where did opinion go?

All too few men stand between us and the mind-numbing drivel that commentators and players spew these days

22-Feb-2010•Sriram Dayanand

Ears glued to the cricket

Ears glued to the cricket

In the years following India's independence, many fans' link to the game was the radio, usually owned by the English-speaking, all-knowing man of the town

14-Feb-2010•Krish Ashok

It happened at the G

It happened at the G

Living 40 minutes away from the MCG is something you can come to take for granted, a homesick Victorian realises

26-Dec-2009•Jarrod Kimber

Eden on an impulse

Eden on an impulse

India v Pakistan in Kolkata, Laxman and Ganguly at the crease. Fly into town for the day?

07-Dec-2009•Soumya Bhattacharya

Thank you, uncles

Thank you, uncles

There's nothing quite like watching cricket with grumpy old men for company

16-Oct-2009•Anand Ramachandran

When trickery was afoot

When trickery was afoot

On two spinners who made the special art of deception their own, and gave the game a gripping narrative in the process

11-Sep-2009•Sriram Dayanand

Old school tie

Old school tie

On meeting a childhood hero - and letting him down

20-Aug-2009•Edward Craig

The loss of cricket's cadence

The loss of cricket's cadence

Cricket has outdone other sports in commercialisation, at the cost of the viewing experience - but perhaps that's no more than we deserve

28-Jul-2009•Sriram Dayanand

Mr Backyard Cricket

Mr Backyard Cricket

A hunk of wood for a bat, stones for balls, his father's awkward action to face: Michael Hussey's initiation to cricket wasn't exactly indicative of what was to come

24-Jul-2009•Steve Cannane

A Lahore landing

A Lahore landing

In 2004 Pakistan unrolled the red carpet for India. A look at the team's arrival in Lahore

10-Mar-2009•Rahul Bhattacharya

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