No sentimental farewell for a practical man
All his cricketing life MS Dhoni has been obsessed with keeping the emotion out of it. He was never going to make leaving an emotional act. No farewell Test, speech or even press conference. Boom.…
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Determined Rossouw rides his luck
With the World Cup just a few months away, Rilee Rossouw capitalised on his luck and gave a compelling audition of his skills in the first T20Firdose Moonda05-Nov-2014Rilee Rossouw had an ODI debut he would…
The problem with England's one-day batting
They prefer to mostly stay in the crease, even to spinners, and don't seem to know how to pace an innings when batting firstAakash Chopra13-Feb-2015There's a lot to like about the English style of playing…
Build, build, blast off
In contrast to previous World Cups, this time most teams seem to have followed a strategy of constructing an innings till about the last quarter and then launching an all-out attackSharda Ugra17-Mar-2015In the southern hemisphere,…
USA's cricket lovers come out to watch
One week in Indianapolis recently proved American cricket fans really do exist, and they want more of the gamePeter Della Penna28-May-2015They came from downtown, from suburbs like Carmel to the north and Franklin to the…
Three months that made Kieswetter a World T20 winner
In the space of a few months in 2010, Craig Kieswetter went from an England Lions cricketer to a key part of the only England team to win global silverwareAndrew McGlashan05-Jun-2015It is a scorecard that…
Papua New Guinea take flight
How the team went from a bunch of mentally and physically unfit cricket enthusiasts to winning their maiden first-class game in some style Nagraj Gollapudi29-Jun-2015"First we did it in ODIs, and now in four-day cricket.…
Best figures by a spinner, Australia's highest at No. 7
Stats highlight from the first ODI between England and Australia at the Ageas BowlShiva Jayaraman03-Sep-20155 Number of consecutive ODIs England have now lost at the Ageas Bowl. The last time they won here was in…
One session, 130 runs
Stats highlights from an incredible day in Cape Town, as Ben Stokes waded into South Africa's bowlers on the way to a stunning double-centuryS Rajesh03-Jan-2016163 Balls faced by Ben Stokes for his double-century, the second-fastest…
How T20 has juiced fielding
Given that format has been designed with close finishes in mind, it has changed the way teams, coaches and selectors look at fieldingTim Wigmore03-Mar-2016When Trevor Penney became India fielding coach in 2011, he was tasked…