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Gavaskar: two Thursdays
Dec 14, 2018
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Twice on a tour of Australia, Sunny was out bowled for zero
From the archive
Abbamania
Mar 4, 2018
| From the Archive
Twelve years ago, Abdul Qadir, still good enough to turn out for Pakistan, spent a summer playing club cricket in Melbourne. The few who saw him remember it like it was yesterday
Essay
Non-epic
Jan 4, 2016
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Chandra and Qadir, Gower and Viv - a case for the transformative power of the miniature
Essay
The thirty-ninth summer of DK Lillee
May 4, 2015
| Essay
What if there was an office he could go to, shut the door, do the thing that was inside him and no one ever had to see it?
The lingering image of Rubel Hossain
Mar 24, 2015
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Short, slight, fast, skiddy, moves it sideways, in-drifts it, and gets good bounce. And the last Australia probably saw of him was two one-over spells
Elegy for runlessness
Mar 18, 2015
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Chatara to Dhawan: six balls, no runs, six paragraphs. There's a certain poetry about the maiden over
Twenty-two balls from Chris Jordan
Mar 12, 2015
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Or how England can take a simple idea and stretch it till it makes no sense at all
Man walks into a bar, watches Afghanistan
Mar 6, 2015
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It's natural that cricket's obsessives should relish the sparkle of Afghanistan's play this World Cup
Soumya Sarkar's shot in the dark
Mar 2, 2015
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The long-lasting memory of a young batsman we have never seen before is of that one brilliant shot announcing his arrival