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Jamie Smith stays in the moment to give England a glimpse into the future
Wicketkeeper puts rare first-day blemish behind him to score his third fifty in five Test inningsMatt Roller22-Aug-2024It can pay to have a short memo
Which wicketkeeper has made the most stumpings off a single bowler?
And which players have the smallest difference between their batting and bowling averages in Tests and ODIs? Steven Lynch12-Dec-2023John Reid had a Te
The Ashton Agar puzzle for Australia
His bowling is impeccable but his batting doesn’t really seem to have a place in the XIAlex Malcolm19-Feb-2022Ashton Agar is a good problem for Austra
Bangladesh – winning hearts, games, and new fans at the World Cup
The crowd support, increasing with every day and every match, makes Mashrafe Mortaza’s men extremely useful tourists for the organisersMohammad Isam i
Eight down, certainly not all out in this series
Further lower-order stands, a superb hundred from Pujara and Moeen again enjoying bowling against India provided the main stats of the dayBharath Seer
The Shannon Gabriel paradox
He is quick, menacing, and on his day unplayable. Why, though, are such days not more frequent?Andrew Fidel Fernando13-Jun-2018It is the pace that dra
A venue for results and for Peter Siddle
Stats preview to the Boxing Day Ashes Test at the MCGS Rajesh25-Dec-2013The last 15 Tests at the Melbourne Cricket Ground have all produced decisive r
Hard takes and simple misses
Plays of the Day from third ODI between South Africa and Pakistan, in CenturionFirdose Moonda30-Nov-2013The catch In the absence of Graeme Smith and J
Pujara dance leaves England in the dark
Nimble feet in defence and attack have been the key feature of Cheteshwar Pujara’s immaculate series so farSidharth Monga23-Nov-2012Cheteshwar Pujara
If you build it, they might come
Hambantota’s shiny new stadium may have been built at great cost but getting to it and finding accommodation in the vicinity is a struggle for the fan