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The art of the obvious

The master offspinner's greatness lies in his ability to hasten batsmen to their doom even as they see it coming

04-Dec-2007•Suresh Menon

A fighter and a frank talker

Tragically, one of the finest batsmen in Sri Lanka's history, a technical artisan with a cover-drive from heaven, has ended his international days in a fog of injustice

20-Nov-2007•Charlie Austin

Dazzling, delicate; a reassuring presence

Inzamam-ul-Haq may not have kept it all together all the time; he couldn't. But he was there through all of it, the highs, the lows, the thick, the thin: a reassurance

12-Oct-2007•Osman Samiuddin

The unsung winner

Ashley Giles wrung every last drop out of the limited talent he had

10-Aug-2007•Andrew Miller

A crusader on and off the field

The news of Botham's knighthood is wonderfully appropriate and shamefully overdue

15-Jun-2007•Andrew Miller

The last king of Trinidad

Nobody made the game look better and few ever played it better than Brian Lara

20-Apr-2007•Rahul Bhattacharya

A genius in wrist and mind

Warne could make the batsmen feel inferior, his craft went way beyond deceit

05-Jan-2007•Sambit Bal

Turn again Tiger

With the same understated tenacity that characterises his playing career, Shivnarine Chanderpaul unobtrusively slid into his 100th Test match at Multan Cricket Stadium

21-Nov-2006•Vaneisa Baksh

The power of three

A moving homage to Clyde Walcott, one of the legends of the game

27-Aug-2006•Vaneisa Baksh

Another pitstop for the Milestone Man

Murali is cricket's Milestone Man, a prolific oddity in the world of cricket statistics, one who threatens to set records that will stand for generations to come

11-Mar-2006•Charlie Austin

The 100-per-cent cricketer

He may be a master of his craft but Anil's greatness lies in his ability to always see himself as a student

17-Dec-2005•Rahul Dravid

The silent achiever

The simple ability to land the ball with the precision of a playing card is the most fundamental characteristic that binds together the word's greatest wicket-takers, and it has been Chaminda Vaas's greatest attribute

13-Dec-2005•Charlie Austin

The Lara odyssey

Lara may have just broken Border's record, but to measure his greatness one must turn to many other greats

26-Nov-2005•Vaneisa Baksh

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