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Karunaratne's rise and the fast-bowling revolution
They could not find a way past Pakistan in Pallekele, Sri Lanka’s openers and the verve in their pace attack will keep them in good stead moving onAnd
Guptill repays the faith, and then some
New Zealand’s management believed in Martin Guptill’s match-winning ability and stood by him through a nearly two-year period of rocky form. Even they
WI win not a foregone conclusion
The match-up between Ireland, a team on the rise, and West Indies, one on the slide, could potentially prove to be the defining contest of the tournam
Cocky, outspoken, irreplacable
Shakib Al Hasan is back after serving a ban for a slew of off-field transgressions, and Bangladesh will welcome not just his allround skills but also
Chris day and Stuey tunes
Birds on the pitch provided more entertainment than the batsmenSudhindra Prasad16-Aug-2014Choice of gameThe deciding Test of the series at a ground wi
The bespectacled army
A XI that may not have always seen the ball like a football, but would have done well neverthelessBill Ricquier23-May-2014Watching Virender Sehwag wea
A statistical breakdown of England's breakdown
What do you do when your side has been on the wrong end of a leathering? You seek solace in the numbers is whatAndy Zaltzman31-Dec-2013The search for
The luckless Bracewell
Plays of the day from the first day of the second Test in MirpurMohammad Isam in Mirpur21-Oct-2013The drops Tamim Iqbal had two lives in the first se
AB can sweep, AB can scoop
The crowd displayed a ‘Don’t worry, we don’t boo!’ banner for Virat Kohli’s benefit, but that didn’t justify their unusual lack of excitementAjinkya J
'I need to learn to be easy on myself'
S Badrinath talks about his long wait on the sidelines and learning to take things easyInterview by Sriram Veera17-May-2011You once went on record ask