Playing, playing, gone

Jan 23, 2012: Cricketers who announced their retirements during series

Thank you for not troubling the scorers

Jan 16, 2012: When batsmen made getting out for zero memorable

Follow my lead

Jan 9, 2012: Michael Clarke's triple-hundred at the SCG inspired our selection of these captains' knocks

Hasta la vista... maybe?

Jan 2, 2012: Stuart MacGill's comeback to big cricket has started well, but some people weren't so lucky

Cricket's Olympians

Dec 19, 2011: To get into the spirit of the 2012 Olympics, here are 11 cricketers with connections to the Games

Going glassy-eyed

Dec 12, 2011: Players who wore spectacles while playing cricket

It's not how you begin...

Dec 5, 2011: Players who failed to light up their debuts but went on to shine later in their careers

We don't do encores

Nov 28, 2011: Players who stole the show on their Test debuts but couldn't live up to the early promise

One and done

Nov 21, 2011: Players who only got to play a Test apiece for Australia

The one and only

Nov 7, 2011: England players who managed to win just a single Test cap (and one who got two)

Behind a famous cricketer...

Oct 31, 2011: ... is sometimes his equally famous wife

We did overcome

Oct 24, 2011: Cricketers who got over physical or social obstacles to make a mark in the game

To baldly go...

Oct 17, 2011: Players who have been follically challenged at the top

Colour me purple

Oct 10, 2011: When cricketers (other than Bradman) briefly tried on the cloak of invincibility

My kingdom for a bat

Oct 3, 2011: Kings, nawabs and other royals who played cricket

Married to the job

Sep 26, 2011: Eleven pairs of cricketing brothers-in-law

Something to remember me by

Sep 19, 2011: Rahul Dravid made a fifty in his final ODI last week. We take a look at players who lit up their final matches

Honey, I broke the razor

Sep 12, 2011: From WG to Amla: cricketers (and a statistician) with impressive beards

Well begun is half-done

Sep 5, 2011: Should Nathan Lyon and Shaminda Eranga be worried that most of the bowlers who took wickets with their first ball in Tests didn't go on to perform many more great deeds?

Me, myself and I

Aug 29, 2011: After Rahul Dravid carried his bat at The Oval and then went straight back in to start the follow-on, we look at some other single-handed batting efforts