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Numbers Game >>
Bad times for Dravid and Kallis

They have been the mainstays of their batting orders for a while now, but 2008 has been a particularly bad year for both batsmen

Cricinfo XI >>
Captain marvel

Kevin Pietersen has made all the right moves early in his captaincy career, winning his first Test in charge and claiming a 4-0 one-day series win. Andrew McGlashan takes a look at 11 other captains who made a mark early in their reign

The List >>
Quickly off the blocks

Batsmen with the highest run aggregates in debut series of varying lengths. By Travis Basevi and George Binoy

Ask Steven >>
Ducks, few and plenty

Fewest zeroes in low totals, most dismissals by a keeper, one-catch wonders, and hundreds in your 50th

All Today's Yesterdays >>
Sobers: limited-overs flop

September 5: The great Garry Sobers scored 8032 runs in Tests - 8032 more than he made in one-day internationals

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A journey, darkly

The backdrop to Joseph O'Neill's acclaimed new novel is New York's seedy cricket subculture, where the search for meaning is deceptively infectious, if ultimately futile. By Andrew Miller

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Analysis
Mahi hews a new road

He's cut out the big back-lift and he doesn't go boom quite as often, but MS Dhoni is more effective than ever. Sidharth Monga on how India's captain changed his game to become the world's top ODI batsman again

Interviews >>
'Results first, entertainment second'
Dumped after an ordinary Ashes three years ago, Simon Katich is back, largely due to a huge domestic season. Australian cricket's working-class hero talks about being an unattractive batsman in a team of dashers

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Keeping it real
After years spent waiting, Brad Haddin is finally filling Adam Gilchrist's vast shoes as Australia's 'keeper. "It's important that you leave your own mark on the team," he tells Brydon Coverdale

Quote Unquote

"I was not fast enough. But I was good at running. Some of my friends used to make fun that my run-up to the crease was faster than my deliveries."

The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, wanted to be a cricketer before he took up sprinting

Number Crunching

Did You Know?

Mark Butcher never played an ODI. He played 71 Tests without having represented England in the shorter form, which is by some margin a record for players who made their debut after 1971. Next up is Jim Higgs, who played 22 Tests for Australia between 1978 and 1981, but never played an ODI