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Momentous at the WACA
It may have been a one-day match but the Western Australia-Queensland Gillette Cup semi-final at the WACA was no ordinary gameAlan Shiell22-Nov-2014Ia
Riding with Shastri, trailing Pink Floyd
Our correspondent cuts corners with train tickets, discovers Stoolball and tries to understand the Bristol dialectSidharth Monga09-Sep-2014August 14Ha
Farewells and remembered pleasures
Goodbyes to Tendulkar and others, delightful essays and detailed recaps – the 2014 edition of the Indian Wisden has plenty to treasure Soumya Bhattach
No Chanderpaul, no problem
In the absence of their lynchpin, West Indies came into the Test with their top seven having played fewer Tests than Virender Sehwag, but they were fa
The story of a dynasty
An acclaimed new documentary on the West Indies teams of the 70s and 80s goes beyond charting their on-field dominanceLiam Brickhill21-May-2011The bes
The player who cheered everyone up
Makhaya Ntini made a specialty of putting smiles on people’s faces. During his last game, the Twenty20 against India, the emotions on show may be rath
India's opening salvo
Faced with a relatively gettable target of 266, India’s opening combination ensured that there would be no early tremors in the dressing-roomOn the Ba
Has any other team lost a Test despite five centuries as India did?
And how rare is it for a batter to be dismissed for 99 and 0 as Harry Brook was?Steven Lynch01-Jul-2025India lost the first Test against England despi
Has any batter bettered Saud Shakeel's run of 20-plus scores in successive Tests since debut?
And who has played the most Tests without bettering the score he made on debut?Steven Lynch19-Dec-2023I heard that Saud Shakeel had set a record for r
How did Tom Latham bat so well on the slow Kanpur pitch against India's spinners?
His off-side game against spin is limited, but that actually works in his favourAakash Chopra01-Dec-20212:02Vettori: ‘Latham is the perfect all-condit