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Kapil's sixes and Trueman's snorters

And nine other memorable individual performances in Tests between England and India

A strong side on paper

Characters from books, comics and television who played cricket

Five in one and done

Cricketers who played all five Tests of a series, and no more

You gave us such a start

Players who defined a series by the way they began it

Phantom and Co

Some entertainingly hopeless batsmen

Poachers turned gamekeepers

Test cricketers who moved from the field to the press box

Not stars but heroes

Popular and much-loved cricketers who played little international cricket

That's not in the manual

Not all cricketers are super-stylish. Sometimes they defy the coaching book, but get the job done

Look, ma

Famous cricketing mothers (and others who ought to be)

Going out with a bang

Players who ended their international careers in style

Symmetrical stats

Cricket's statistics aren't all 99.94s. Sometimes the numbers are satisfyingly round

Born together, played together

Cricketing twins, some who confused the opposition, others who faced off against each other

Injured by a small boy, and other tales

Kevin Pietersen was dropped from the Lord's Test for textual impropriety. Here are some other instances of players who missed matches for unlikely reasons

Partners in prose

Some names that go well together on a scorecard, conjuring up visions of food, music or even spy movies

One bright spark

Players who had a solitary day in the sun in otherwise unremarkable careers

We'll be back after this break

Successful Test returns from injuries, bans, exiles, and offending royal sensibilities

You talkin' to me?

Not-so-famous cricketers who share names with better known colleagues

Gentlemen, let's pray

Tatenda Taibu recently quit cricket to join the church. Here are other cricketers who were also men of the cloth

Happy birthday to me

Cricketers who earned presents for themselves on their birthdays

In service of tennis

Cricketers (or their kin) who played at Wimbledon. And a tennis star who likes cricket

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