Greatest Test Performances

The 50 in seven graphs

Jan 4, 2016: A breakdown of the greatest Test performances of the last 50 years: one team, one player and one decade stand out

Essay

Fly Lara fly

Jan 4, 2016: The method behind the genius, the early-morning vision behind the epics

Comment

Leave it to Beefy

Jan 4, 2016: The 1980 Jubilee Test was all Botham

Stats feature

The best from 50 years, by the numbers

Jan 4, 2016: Four stats buffs put their analytical tools and algorithms to work to determine the top Test performances since 1966

Interview

'Train? You're kidding'

Jan 4, 2016: Bat well, bowl well and catch well - that's how simple the game was for Ian Botham

Essay

The line of greatness

Jan 4, 2016: Some soar over it, some walk it, some fall cruelly short. A brief history

Essay

Non-epic

Jan 4, 2016: Chandra and Qadir, Gower and Viv - a case for the transformative power of the miniature

Feature

When death whispered

Jan 4, 2016: At The Oval in 1976, the bowler was Holding, the batsmen were history

Back and Forth

The giants in our midst

Jan 4, 2016: Plenty of performances from the 2000s scored high in the Greatest Test Performance poll, but few were from the last 10 years. Two contemporary writers discuss

Laxman's Kolkata epic voted best Test performance

Jan 4, 2016: The famous 2001 Test innings leads the list of 50 greatest performances in the last half-century

Feature

281-degree panorama

Jan 4, 2016: Seven views of Mt VVS from Pts Warne, Ponting, Zaheer, Gillespie, Raju, Leipus and Buchanan

Editorial

In praise of list-making

Jan 4, 2016: The joys of sitting in judgement on a half-century of Test match performances

Think You Know Yourself?

Tall, dark and willing to be quizzed

Jan 4, 2016: Curtly Ambrose answers a few questions about his career

India in Australia 2015-16

Uncapped Paris and Boland in Australia's ODI squad

Jan 3, 2016: Joel Paris has been fast-tracked into the Australian ODI squad while Scott Boland and Kane Richardson are also included as pace bowling coverage in the 13-man group to face India in five matches

South Africa v England, 2nd Test, Cape Town, 2nd day

Bairstow's emotional coming of age

Jan 3, 2016: He was overshadowed by Ben Stokes' feats, but Jonny Bairstow's maiden Test was a special moment for a multitude of reasons

South Africa v England, 2nd Test, Cape Town, 2nd day

Onslaught exposes South Africa's depleted stocks

Jan 3, 2016: When South Africa needed strike power at the crucial moments of England's innings, they found they had nowhere to turn

United Bank Limited v SNGPL, QEA final, Karachi, 1st day

Hafeez, pacers dismiss United Bank for 208

Jan 3, 2016: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited's pacers, along with Mohammad Hafeez, put themselves in a strong position by dismissing United Bank Limited for 208 on the first day of the Quaid-E-Azam Trophy final in Karachi

South Africa v England, 2nd Test, Cape Town, 1st day

Stokes only thought sixes, not a triple

Jan 3, 2016: Alastair Cook gave Ben Stokes the chance to reach a triple century on the second day at Newlands, but Stokes only had one thought in his mind: keep hitting every ball for six

South Africa v England, 2nd Test, Cape Town, 2nd day

Brutal Stokes writes his own script

Jan 3, 2016: The raw brutality of Ben Stokes' third and finest Test century is a sign that, at the age of 24, this might yet be his era

South Africa v England, 2nd Test, Cape Town, 2nd day

Ben Stokes hits the ball so hard...

Jan 3, 2016: We asked fans on social media to complete the sentence, "Ben Stokes hits the ball so hard...". Here are some of the best responses