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Training day

Practice also makes for perfect photographs

Training day

Practice also makes for perfect photographs

The art of the T20 finisher

Thisara Perera, David Miller, David Wiese and others talk about the challenges of closing out a T20 innings

Of bats and ballots

Who says cricket and politics don't mix?

The miracle man of Chinnappampatti

Natarajan's emergence from his village and his circumstances was remarkable enough. Now he's trying to make sure others do too

Bringing the A game

The WTC final was contested by the two teams with the best A programmes, and that's no coincidence. A tours are more important than ever before

Stats feature

How the IPL franchises spent their money in the auction

Mar 17, 2022: Were keeper-batters more in demand than allrounders? Oldies better than newbies? We make sense of the numbers in this deep dive

Mathew Varghese, Shiva Jayaraman, Sampath Bandarupalli and Kshiraja K
Photo feature

Blaster from the past

Mar 16, 2022: A look back at Viv Richards' greatest hits, in pictures

Deepti Unni
Photo feature

Goodbye, Hollywood

Mar 9, 2022: A player who refused to be anything but himself on a cricket ground or off it, Shane Warne's life was the stuff of legend

Deepti Unni
Feature

Cricket's mothers have it better now than ever (but not all of them)

Mar 8, 2022: Female players who chose to have children effectively had to give up their playing careers. That is changing, but there's still a long way to go

Annesha Ghosh
Stats feature

The 'real value' of runs: where Root, Lara and Laxman shine

Mar 5, 2022: An exhaustive analysis determining the worth of a batter's Test runs has a great allrounder as the biggest gainer

Anantha Narayanan
Feature

Amelia Kerr: 'If my family didn't get involved, I would still be suffering now'

Feb 28, 2022: The New Zealand allrounder talks about how her mental-health break made her appreciate the value of sharing your problems with your loved ones

Valkerie Baynes
Talking Cricket

Jhulan Goswami: 'I want to lift the game, because in India there is a question mark over everything women do'

Feb 24, 2022: The India spearhead looks back at her two decades in cricket, the evolution of fast bowling in the women's game, and her own transformation over the years

Interview by Annesha Ghosh
Stats feature

The age of bowling

Feb 21, 2022: Stunning strike rates, incredible depth in attacks, battered batters: a deep dive into an unparalleled era of bowler domination in Test cricket

S Rajesh (with inputs from Shiva Jayaraman)
Feature

Fast times with Shabnim Ismail

Feb 17, 2022: From playing in the streets with boys to becoming a speed demon feared by batters across the world: here's the South Africa bowler's story

Firdose Moonda
Feature

The future is tall

Feb 2, 2022: The great batters have historically been on the shorter side. T20 is changing that. Here is why

Tim Wigmore
Writers
  • Andrew Miller
    Rob Key brings sense of calm at turbulent time for English cricket Much like Key's first public utterances, the Test team reboot has been very matter-of-fact so far
  • Danyal Rasool
    Pakistanis at the County Championship: Round 6 - Masood shines, Azhar turns a corner, and Rauf toils Masood makes big gains on County Championship run-getters' chart
  • Ian Chappell
    Let us now praise the great fielders Down the years, the top teams have had many agile, quick practitioners of the art
  • Hemant Brar
    Kings' high-risk approach fails to click; Malik, Tripathi shine in Sunrisers' dull season Livingstone, Jitesh bright spots in Kings' up-and-down season; Williamson's struggles added to Sunrisers' woes
  • Shashank Kishore
    When nothing fell in place for Mumbai, and Capitals were hit by injury, illness and inconsistency Both teams had to deal with out-of-form captains and injury issues this season
  • Umar Farooq
    Breakout stars of PSL 2022: Zaman Khan, Mohammad Haris, Yasir Khan, and others A look at the players who could be future stars for Pakistan
  • Valkerie Baynes
    Anya Shrubsole gives up trying to catch up, but will always be at the head of the pack England seam-bowling great knew the time was right to step away
  • S Rajesh
    Luck Index - KKR give de Kock three costly lives The result of the game could have been quite different had KKR held on to their chances
  • Shaun Pollock
    Luck Index - KKR give de Kock three costly lives The result of the game could have been quite different had KKR held on to their chances
  • Matt Roller
    Show of faith or leap of faith? Ollie Pope heads into the unknown at No.3 Surrey coach Batty backs batter, but promotion shows lack of communication
  • Osman Samiuddin
    Torn by war, Ukraine still has cricket At a time when the country's very existence is at stake, a few hardy souls are making a pitch for Associate membership of the ICC
  • Alan Gardner
    England are finally becoming the team they wanted to be - New Zealand Baz's boys and Stokes' folks are going to nice-guy the hell out of Test cricket or kill the format trying
  • Sidharth Monga
    As it happened: Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals, IPL 2022, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai Get your dose of colour, stats and analysis on ESPNcricinfo's live blog right here
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