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Those men in fiery red shirts

Supporting pre-2004 Zimbabwe was the most innocent of cricket's pleasures. Until you looked deeper, writes Danyal Rasool

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Osman Samiuddin

In numbers: Pakistan down and under - the bowling's to blame Pakistan's troubles with the ball down under go back a long time, and it was no different in 2019
George Dobell

England must raise fielding standards to help toiling bowlers catch a break Joe Denly's horror drop reflected a wider malaise in England's catching efforts
Andrew Fidel Fernando

Will someone spare a thought for the poor, wee, enraged cricketers? Also: are Sri Lanka brilliant or dreadful? Answers on a postcard
Danyal Rasool

Those men in fiery red shirts Supporting pre-2004 Zimbabwe was the most innocent of cricket's pleasures. Until you looked deeper
Ian Chappell

Inept captaincy sunk Pakistan in Australia Pakistan's young pace attack needed to be supported by strategic field placements by the captain. That didn't happen
S Rajesh

How does Virat Kohli's Test bowling attack compare with the best ever? Numbers say this is India's best Test bowling attack of all time, and it's also one of the most balanced any captain has ever had
Sidharth Monga

FAQs: The concussion sub, and why the rule is important Also: how concussions are different from say, a broken arm, and why even the possibility of one should require strict action
Steven Lynch

What was the highest score in Adelaide before David Warner's unbeaten 335? And have there been higher scores than Warner's 335 without any sixes?
Firdose Moonda

CSA CEO claims MSL only behind IPL in terms of viewership - is that possible? There's reason to be skeptical about the supposed popularity of South Africa's domestic T20 tournament
Sharda Ugra

What Sourav Ganguly needs to do as head of the BCCI He only has ten months, but there is plenty he can achieve if he wants to. Here's a list of things he needs to tackle
Andrew McGlashan

From 'poor' ICC rating to match abandoned: timeline of a troubled MCG pitch A difficult two years for the MCG pitch has continued with a Sheffield Shield match abandoned
Tim Wigmore

How many leagues can cricket take? If all the existing and proposed short-format leagues are to survive, some will have to recalibrate their ambitions
Andrew Miller

From Duncan Fletcher to Trevor Bayliss: how Chris Silverwood's predecessors shaped up Silverwood is the sixth England coach in the central-contract era - so how did the others fare?
Mohammad Isam

Tentative footwork a sign of Bangladesh's scrambled minds Time after time, the batsmen were rooted to the crease against India's fast bowlers