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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
    India have the IPL to thank for their formidable international depth The country has for long had the potential; with the IPL, it has been translated into performance
  • Hemant Brar
    As it happened: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2022, Brabourne stadium Get your dose of colour, stats and analysis on ESPNcricinfo's live blog
  • Shashank Kishore
    Mitchell Marsh, the comeback king Time and again he has been written off, time and again he proves people wrong
  • 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
    What do Capitals, Royal Challengers, Knight Riders, Punjab Kings and Sunrisers need to do to qualify Only two points currently separate the four teams from fourth to seventh spots
  • Shaun Pollock
    What do Capitals, Royal Challengers, Knight Riders, Punjab Kings and Sunrisers need to do to qualify Only two points currently separate the four teams from fourth to seventh spots
  • Matt Roller
    Samit Patel: 'Who'd have thought that I'd play 20 years of T20 cricket? It's pretty special' Blast record-holder targets more success with Notts as tournament's 20th season draws near
  • 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
    Live Report: Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2022, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Get your dose of colour, stats and analysis on ESPNcricinfo's live blog
  • Sidharth Monga
    Marsh ticks the right boxes as an evolved No. 3 Warner's first-ball duck needed someone to step up early, and Marsh did that for 18 overs
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