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Four Kiwis, three keepers, 11 for all time

Scott Styris picks a team from among the best white-ball cricketers he played with

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Osman Samiuddin

What did cricket in the 2010s teach us? In this past decade the game has both grown and shrunk, been haunted by past demons, and found resilience in mutability
George Dobell

It's amazing how a couple of weeks can change things as England head in right direction Not so long ago, it seemed England had forgotten how to bat time, had few spin options and little idea how to strike with the Kookaburra ball
Andrew Fidel Fernando

Who played the better innings, Stokes at Headingley or Perera in Durban? Their fourth-innings performances are among the greatest ever in Test cricket. We compare them on the numbers
Danyal Rasool

Attack of the killer pacemen Pat Cummins leads the pack of fast bowlers who dominate the list of Test bowling nominees
Ian Chappell

Kohli at No. 3 and Rahul at 4 will give Australia plenty of headaches And Australia must look to exploit Kohli's fragility against Adam Zampa's legspin when India tour the country later in the year
S Rajesh

The T20 explosion, India's dominance, and Kohli's ODI gluttony We study the stats of the decade and find that everyone is playing a lot of T20, no team is as imposing as Australia were in the 2000s, and that Malinga and Kohli were unstoppable
Sidharth Monga

Don't dismiss the idea of four-day Test cricket As long as the essentials of the contest are preserved, shedding some traditions is a small price to pay
Steven Lynch

What's the biggest ODI match total to not include a century? Also: Has anyone lost more Tests at an overseas venue than Tendulkar has at the MCG?
Firdose Moonda

One good morning can't erase four bad ones South Africa batting too late as Maharaj and Paterson play with freedom of men who have everything to gain
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

Williamson's workload, Santner's spot - five questions for New Zealand Their 3-0 loss to Australia was a harsh reality check to a Test side that had done very well in 2019
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

Botham, Flintoff, Stokes - who is England's greatest allrounder? Ben Stokes appears to be reaching his golden age, but how does he stack up against his celebrated predecessors?
Mohammad Isam

Mohammad Amir's six-for, Najmul Hossain Shanto's ton among BPL 2019-20 highlights We take a look at the best performances with the ball, with the bat, and in the field