Verdict

England left to regret ponderous start

Andrew Miller's verdict

04-Jun-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

Tuffers takes the long haul

Andrew Miller watches Phil Tufnell arrive at Headingley on the second day of the second Test

04-Jun-2004•Roving Reporter by Andrew Miller at Headingley

Headingley in high spirits

Andrew Miller samples the atmosphere of the first day of the second Test at Headingley

03-Jun-2004•Roving Reporter by Andrew Miller at Headingley

Zimbabwe proves to be Lamb's last frontier

It was a day for departures

27-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Steven Lynch

He went out in style - but too soon

What a way to go: reaching a marvellous century, then spanking the winning run through the covers to climax a classic Test match

27-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Steven Lynch

More needed from a middling middle order

Losing hurts: there will have been some small satisfaction at having been key contributors to one of the more stimulating Tests of recent times, but the bad news is that New Zealand do not have much time to turn things around before the second Test

25-May-2004•The Kiwi Verdict from our New Zealand correspondent

One good century deserves another

At the end of the perfect Test match, the perfect finish: the man who had been told his head was on the chopping block, the man who was getting out bowled too often, the man who ran out the local hero, smashed consecutive fours to bring up his

24-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Steven Lynch

The tenacious trio

By and large, England and New Zealand have shaken off that traditionally dour image of their respective games, to embrace a younger, more dynamic version

23-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

'A very sixy day's krucket'

It was, as a Kiwi might say, "a very sixy day's krucket"

22-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

The glovemen are off

The third day at Lord's was a good one for wicketkeepers

22-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

Happy and inglorious

When Stuart MacGill declared himself unavailable to tour Zimbabwe a month ago he was reluctant to elaborate on the reasons why

21-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Christian Ryan

Kirsten's double rides again

Mark Richardson, according to the official Test programme, "has reinvented himself from stodgy tailender into an opening batsman of genuine Test class"

20-May-2004•Steven Lynch at Lord's

Whatever this was, it wasn't Test cricket

Ever since the standoff between the Zimbabwe Cricket Union and the rebel cricketers began, the kind of grotesquely one-sided day witnessed today had been on the cards

16-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

England's arrested development

As the dust settled on an eventful tour, Michael Vaughan was full of the usual end-of-series platitudes

05-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

Lara's ideal birthday present

At the end of his epic innings in Antigua last month, Brian Lara said that he would have gladly traded in his world record in return for a West Indian victory

02-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

The best parties are impromptu

St Lucia is an island of 90,000 people, of which 10,000 bought tickets for a weekend of one-day cricket that no right-minded person believed was remotely possible

01-May-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

Making a mockery of sport

There was a tragic inevitability about the proceedings at the Harare Sports Club today as Zimbabwe's New Model Army was shown up for the club side that it is - and a pretty poor club side at that

25-Apr-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Martin Williamson

The quiet man makes his point

When Chris Read was cruelly jettisoned from last week's fourth Test, his predicament generated an extraordinary wave of sympathy

18-Apr-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Andrew Miller

From a two-man army to a complete outfit

What was most important was evolution of the team from being a two-man army to a complete outfit.

16-Apr-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Dileep Premachandran

Patience pays

For Pakistan, it must have felt worse than Chinese water torture

15-Apr-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Dileep Premachandran

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