Trivia - batting

Teams with four or more batsmen having 50+ averages

Feb 25, 2013: Recently I received a trigger mail that the first four Indian batsmen during the recently concluded Napier Test had a batting average above 50

English cricket

Taking up England's lead role

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Fielding

India's finest slip fielder

Feb 25, 2013: Mohammad Azharuddin will rank as the greatest all-round Indian fielder, and he was quite brilliant in the slips, but as a specialist and for sheer longevity, Dravid stands alone

Australia in South Africa 2008-09

Parnell starts to purr

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India in New Zealand 2008-09

Tough day with few rewards

Feb 25, 2013: Well, it wasn't quite a scythe that we took to the Indian batsmen, more a small, not so sharp, butter knife; but we hung tough and were rewarded with two wickets just after lunch and then a couple late in the day.

Sri Lankan cricket

Question marks from Sri Lanka

Feb 25, 2013: The Oxford Dictionary says 'interim' means ‘intended to last for only a short time until a more permanent solution is found.’ Ironically, politicians in Sri Lanka have used this word to explain the formation of ad-hoc committees to run Sri Lanka

England in West Indies 2008-09

Plenty of positives

Feb 25, 2013:

New Zealand cricket

Boxing day deserves the Basin

Feb 25, 2013: On the first day of the third Test between New Zealand and India, the bleachers and embankment were all but full, and it was only on the second day that a packed crowd was visible

India in New Zealand 2008-09

Not the day I was hoping for

Feb 25, 2013: I sat down to write this a little earlier but wasn't really in a good mood and what I was typing was a little bit angry, I was having a bit of a moan about a few things, not related to today's play either

Mike Holmans

England's win is England's loss

Feb 25, 2013: The plan must be that the series win sufficiently blinds them to their own uselessness to allow the rest of the world to laugh at them come June

Offbeat

A field of dreams left incomplete

Feb 25, 2013: The 1980’s film Arthur’s Hallowed Ground tells the story of a possessive curator who has tended the same school cricket field for half a century and strives to bring to fruition his idea of a perfect pitch, against the wishes of his seniors who

New Zealand cricket

Dhal - the new staple in a changing city

Feb 25, 2013: Cricketers' lunch at Eden Park this week included meat, salad, bread, fruit - and a bowl of dhal

ICC

Does the ICC need to pull its head out of Dubai sand?

Feb 25, 2013: Watching the media conference celebrating the 'Catch The Spirit' campaign of the ICC, Andrew Alderson believes international cricket needs an injection of realism to find better solutions to problems currently riddling the sport

Indian Premier League

This one for the laities

Feb 25, 2013: Mini Kindra, writing in Outlook , feels the second edition of the IPL won't be the same despite the tournament organiser's hopes to seduce crowds with Bollywood allure

Women's cricket

Claire Taylor hits history for six

Feb 25, 2013: After 120 years a woman is named in Wisden's cricketers of the year – heralding a new era for the women's game

Sidharth Monga on India in New Zealand 2008-09

History in the Old Grandstand

Feb 25, 2013: A visit to the New Zealand Cricket museum in the Old Grandstand in the Basin Reserve, which houses a treasure trove of memorabilia from the country's cricket history

English cricket

Mike Atherton on his Lewis Hamilton moment

Feb 25, 2013: What is it with the British and our sportsmen

New Zealand cricket

The class of '69

Feb 25, 2013: The surviving members of New Zealand's 1969 side that toured England, India and Pakistan got together in Wellington for a reunion

England in West Indies 2008-09

Going the distance with England on tour

Feb 25, 2013: As a dream and experiment Owen Robertson, a self-employed electrician, saved up to follow the full tour of the Caribbean

English cricket

'I can't believe I am now part of Wisden club'

Feb 25, 2013: It was quite a shock – but the best kind of shock – to find out that I had been named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year