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The balls of the century, No. 19: Jason Krejza to VVS Laxman

"Picture the best offspinner you can bowl and try to do it"

The balls of the century, No. 19: Jason Krejza to VVS Laxman

"Picture the best offspinner you can bowl and try to do it"

You've got something on your head

In our photo feature, we look at headwear in cricket

Irfan Pathan: 'There was no bigger hero than Kapil Dev when I was growing up'

The former India allrounder on imitating, and befriending, his idol

The balls of the century, No. 20: Monty Panesar to Sachin Tendulkar

Pitch leg, hit off, silence a city

'For the first time, I saw genuine fear in Australia. They might have lost a Test they had dominated'

Craig McMillan, Jason Gillespie and others look back to Brisbane 2001

My Best XI

Mumbai local

Jul 23, 2020: Wasim Jaffer picks an all-time Mumbai Ranji Trophy XI from among the players he watched and played with

As told to Shashank Kishore
Photo feature

Tech it and go

Jul 21, 2020: Cricket is back in our lives and on our screens and we have a century of technological innovations to thank for it

Deepti Unni
The First Sportsperson I Wanted to Be

Shabnim Ismail: 'I dreamt of roughing up batsmen like Steyn did'

Jul 17, 2020: South Africa's fastest female bowler on the pace ace who inspired her

Interview by Shashank Kishore
Hate to Love

The many shades of Marlon Samuels

Jul 15, 2020: Six-hitter, stonewaller, "Sextillion", the bookie connection - if ever there was a character who aroused mixed feelings in a fan…

Matt Roller
High Fives

Like father, unlike son

Jul 13, 2020: Many sons have followed their fathers into cricket, but they haven't always played for the same sides

Scott Oliver
The Greats I've Known

Deadly venom: the terror of Derek Underwood

Jul 10, 2020: Beneath the gentle facade lay a spinner whose weapons were accuracy and fear

Mark Nicholas
Features

Drawing cricket

Jul 8, 2020: Trinidadian artist Wendy Nanan and four decades of sketching the game

ESPNcricinfo staff
Photo feature

Same same but different

Jul 6, 2020: All the little things we'll miss when live cricket returns

Deepti Unni
Features

What has English cricket been like for black players?

Jun 28, 2020: Ebony Rainford-Brent, Tymal Mills, Roland Butcher, Donovan Miller, Michael Holding, Tino Best, Chesney Hughes and others talk about their experiences

Interviews by George Dobell
The Greats I've Known

The best of Gordon Greenidge is the best of batting

Jun 27, 2020: No one was safe while he was at the crease: not the ball, the bowlers, the fielders, the windows, or the records

Mark Nicholas
Writers
  • Osman Samiuddin
    No, no way! You cannot do that, Mohammad Abbas! The more you watch the Ben Stokes dismissal, the more you break it down, the better it gets
  • George Dobell
    Jos Buttler clicks, but have England found key to unlocking his potential? A remarkable innings hasn't completely dispelled the doubts about his suitability for Test cricket
  • Andrew Fidel Fernando
    Can we all be a little more like Mohammad Hafeez? His commitment to testing is admirable
  • Danyal Rasool
    Mohammad Abbas transforms contest to leave England's outlook cloudy Pakistan's cool kids may take the limelight but an innocuous-looking 30-year-old was their star seamer
  • Ian Chappell
    Let's praise the members of the 500-wicket club Stuart Broad has joined their ranks. Who are the others in the bracket?
  • S Rajesh
    Where does Ben Stokes rank among the top allrounders of all time? Over the last four and a half years, the England star has racked up truly special all-round stats
  • Sidharth Monga
    Was the 2007 World Cup really a disaster? A series of unforeseen events went against the tournament, but it also got a lot of things right
  • Steven Lynch
    Has Jimmy Anderson now taken more wickets against West Indies in Tests than anyone else? And how often has a batsman been dismissed twice in one day by the same bowler?
  • Firdose Moonda
    Aiden Markram, Temba Bavuma, Dean Elgar… who will South Africa's next Test captain be? With Quinton de Kock out of the running, there is no clear successor to Faf du Plessis in sight
  • Sharda Ugra
    Whatever happened to Ravi Shastri 1.0? When did the outspoken rebel, who always put players' interests first, turn into an establishment man?
  • Andrew McGlashan
    Who is the future of New Zealand's batting? Peter Fulton picks four names The departing batting coach names four players to keep an eye on
  • 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
    Gilchrist's Hobart mayhem to India's Boxing Day blues: five rearguard efforts that turned Tests Following the Buttler-Woakes rescue act in Manchester, we turn the clock back to other memorable chase-altering gigs
  • Mohammad Isam
    Five last-over thrillers in Tests from the 2010s Starring Faf du Plessis, R Ashwin, Shaminda Eranga, Matt Prior and Tim Paine
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