'Like Neil Armstrong landing on the moon and tripping over'

Dec 12, 2013: What's the most anti-climactic moment in Indian cricketing history? Hint: It's got to do with a mega-milestone reached in a match India lost to Bangladesh

ICC news

De Villiers regains No.1 spot in ODI rankings

Dec 12, 2013: AB de Villiers, the South Africa captain, has regained the No. 1 spot in ICC's ODI rankings for batsmen after moving up one place at the end of the three-match series against India, which South Africa won 2-0

'Johnson is the uncommon denominator between the two series'

Dec 12, 2013: Jarrod Kimber and Gideon Haigh try to make sense of the first two Ashes Tests, and wonder if Flower turned his players into East German athletes

New Zealand v West Indies, 2nd Test, Wellington, 2nd day

New Zealand's reliable 'sheriff'

Dec 12, 2013: BJ Watling's 65 in the first innings against West Indies continued a year where he has cemented what had become a tricky position for New Zealand

England need to embrace being dull

Dec 12, 2013: When they were successful, they were called conservative and boring. That's better than losing, isn't it?

New Zealand v West Indies, 2nd Test, Wellington, 2nd day

West Indies' Best hasn't been enough

Dec 12, 2013: West Indies needed Tino Best to lead by example in this series but although he took four wickets he failed to do so in Wellington

Captains contrasting

Dec 12, 2013: Australia's and England's leaders are men cut from different cloth but both likeable, successful, and with mutually uncompromising gifts of patience and bloody-mindedness

Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 1st T20, Dubai

'We were 15 runs short' - Chandimal

Dec 12, 2013: Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal has admitted his team may have misread the conditions in Dubai after their three-wicket loss to Pakistan in the first Twenty20

WACA, England's blackhole

Dec 12, 2013: England need to cross a statistical hurdle of stellar proportions if they are to win the third Ashes Test

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth

Captaincy renaissance marks Clarke's 100th Test

Dec 12, 2013: Poised on the verge of an Ashes win in a milestone game, Michael Clarke insists that his focus is on the series victory

Rather fortunate

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Why England seem old despite being young

Dec 12, 2013: They are batting creakily when they should be thinking young and batting nervously

India in South Africa 2013-14

Runs and records for de Kock

Dec 12, 2013: The three-match ODI series was a special one for Quinton de Kock, who became only the fifth batsman to score three successive ODI centuries

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth

Faulkner fracture puts more focus on Harris

Dec 12, 2013: Australia will wait until Friday morning to make a call on the fitness of Ryan Harris for the third Test at the WACA, but the captain Michael Clarke said he was confident Harris would retain his place in the side

'How cricket taught me to help deliver a child'

Dec 12, 2013: Zaltz explains how the game can help guide us through the important moments in life

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth

Australia and England on the brink

Dec 12, 2013: ESPNcricinfo's preview of the third Ashes Test between Australia and England at the WACA Ground

Champs today, chumps tomorrow

Dec 12, 2013: In separating sportsmen into two distinct categories - tough men and cowards - we not only miss the subtlety, we miss the whole truth

New Zealand v West Indies, 2nd Test, Wellington, 2nd day

New Zealand dominate rain-hit day

Dec 12, 2013: New Zealand were not as consistent with the ball as they would have wanted to be but they still prised out four West Indies wickets after nearly a session was lost to rain in Wellington

England v Australia, 3rd Test, Perth

Pace, bounce, quick runs, and Mitchell Johnson

Dec 12, 2013: Stats preview to the Perth Test, where England have lost each of their last six Tests

Parthiv takes it slow

Dec 12, 2013: Eleven years after his unexpected Test debut, Parthiv Patel is a senior pro, captain of his state team, and looking for consistency in his bid for a top-level comeback