Country Reviews 2016

Top of the pops

The most-read pieces of content on the site in 2016

ESPNcricinfo staff
Hardik Pandya could not believe his luck when Bangladesh failed to get two runs off the last three balls against India in the World T20 - the tenth most followed match on this site last year  AFP

STORIES

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News

1. Rejuvenated Pakistan out to test India's bouncebackability (March 18)

2. Boisterous Bangladesh eye India heist (March 5)

3. Kohli, Gayle headline Wankhede big bash (March 30)

4. List of players released and retained by IPL teams ahead of the 2017 auction (December 19)

5. India-Bangladesh soap opera set for new season (February 23)

6. India, Pakistan meet in another one-off contest (February 26)

7. Rattled Bangladesh run into resurgent India (March 22)

8. Injury worries for Pakistan ahead of crucial NZ clash (March 21)

9. Knight Riders' experience v Daredevils' youth (April 9)

10. RCB, Sunrisers battle in quest for first-time IPL glory (May 28)

Wahab Riaz's spell to Shane Watson was one of the memorable passages of play in the last World Cup. Could Pakistan miss the next one?  Getty Images

Features

1. Why Ramiz gets Bangladesh's goat (March 28)
By Jarrod Kimber

2. A World Cup without Pakistan? (September 8)
By Tim Wigmore

3. West Indies' triumph of imagination and spirit (April 4)
By Mark Nicholas

4. 'Everyone cried in the dressing room' (September 6)
By Mohammad Isam and Umar Farooq

5. Why Kohli is a better leader than Smith (December 11)
By Ian Chappell

6. Who will rain on Dhoni's parade? (March 3)
By Mark Nicholas

7. Ashwin v Herath v Yasir v Lyon (November 11)
By S Rajesh

8. How Rohit became a one-day monster (January 15)
By S Rajesh

9. Meet the Pandya brothers (April 8)
By Arun Venugopal

10. Kohli's and Rohit's divergent paths to batting glory (February 7)
By Ian Chappell

Alastair Cook went past 10,000 Test runs this year. One of our most-read blog posts asked if he has a chance to threaten Sachin Tendulkar's run-making records  Getty Images

Blogs

1. Will Cook break all of Tendulkar's Test records? (October 24)
By Kartikeya Date

2. Where Kohli is better than Tendulkar (March 22)
By Pranay Sanklecha

3. The problem with the PSL (February 21)
By Danyal Rasool

4. What the Afridi-Nazir partnership reveals about memory and Pakistan (March 8)
By Hassan Cheema

5. The Ashwin, Jadeja, Yadav stat you must tell everyone (December 1)
By Andy Zaltzman

R Ashwin was the subject of the second most popular TCM story of 2016  Associated Press

The Cricket Monthly

1. Practically magic (January 2016)

2. Chennai super king (December 2016)
By Karthik Krishnaswamy

3. The real Jadeja (February 2016)
By Sidharth Monga

4. Rahane sees the future (November 2016)
By Sidharth Monga

5. Inzi: a comedy (February 2016)
By Imran Yusuf

"Remind me, who's the most-viewed player of the year?"  Associated Press

PLAYERS

1. Virat Kohli

2. Karun Nair

3. Jayant Yadav

4. Barinder Sran

5. Sachin Tendulkar

6. MS Dhoni

7. R Ashwin

8. Mohammad Nawaz

9. Rohit Sharma

10. Joe Root

All five India-England Tests were among ESPNcricinfo's ten most-viewed matches of the year  Associated Press

MATCHES

1. India v England, fifth Test, Chennai, December 16-20

2. India v England, second Test, Visakhapatnam, November 17-21

3. India v England, first Test, Rajkot, November 9-13

4. Australia v India, fourth ODI, Canberra, January 20

5. India v England, third Test, Mohali, November 26-29

6. India v England, fourth Test, Mumbai, December 8-12

7. India v West Indies, semi-final, World T20, Mumbai, March 31

8. Australia v India, first ODI, Perth, January 12

9. India v New Zealand, first Test, Kanpur, September 22-26

10. India v Bangladesh, World T20, Bangalore, March 23