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Butler bounces back

He's gone from young fast bowler to injury casualty to allrounder. Now Ian Butler's back to the big time, and he's still got time on his side

10-Sep-2009•Jamie Alter

The Sangakkara edge

Sri Lanka's captain has begun to infuse his side with his own brand of competitiveness, and the results seem to already be starting to show

01-Sep-2009•Jamie Alter

Naive NZ struggle to find the plot

As the team looks back at a one-sided series, there is more to ponder than just a spirit-sapping defeat. In the last five years New Zealand won just 12 Test wins from 40

30-Aug-2009•Jamie Alter at the SSC

'Bemused' Moles counts the damage

New Zealand had "front row seats to the cinema" in terms of the technology available to them but Moles was puzzled at how they were not soaking up information

29-Aug-2009•Jamie Alter at the SSC

What's ailing Brendon McCullum?

Brendon McCullum's attitude doesn't reflect his ambition to become the world's premier wicketkeeper-batsman

28-Aug-2009•Jamie Alter at the SSC

Support not forthcoming for Taylor

Ross Taylor has stood out in a middling team and it would not be a surprise if he spent a lot of time looking into his hotel mirror asking for some help from his fellow batsmen

28-Aug-2009•Jamie Alter at the SSC

New Zealand fall short on promise

New Zealand's batting effort resulted in an inadequate end to what promised, refreshingly, to be a day on which they broke even.

27-Aug-2009•Jamie Alter at the SSC

Dan Solo

New Zealand's second-highest Test wicket-taker has just gone past 300, and it's been a hard, lonely row he's had to plough

27-Aug-2009•Jamie Alter

Murali closes in on another record

Muttiah Muralitharan is only four wickets away from 100 Test scalps in Galle, the third venue where he would have achieved such a landmark

17-Aug-2009•S Rajesh

Out of the shadows

He's spent 10 years playing a game here, a game there, up against the most prolific wicket-taker of them all. Now Rangana Herath may just be coming into his own

08-Aug-2009•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

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