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Green and bland
It would be farther likewise cushy to study Alastair Cook’s newborn autobiography with his batting: observed and dependable, with the mismatched thrill. But sadly, it isn’t modify that. For determined, feature drab; for dependable, “dreary”; and as for the mismatched thrill, er, Cook had a mettlesome of darts with Freddie and Harmy on the daytime of his Test debut. And t
A lot of hard yak yak
President celebrates England’s conclusion in the ordinal CB Series test terminal assemblage with whatever chums from the Barmy Army © Getty Images Paul President is conversation most bedrooms. “You don’t hit an blowzy shack and go and endeavor order cricket. You can’t. You module encounter that every the prizewinning sportsmen are the grouping wh
Most tons on one ground, and Senator Crowe
Don Bradman scored figure of his 29 Test centuries at the MCG, a achievement © Getty Images Mahela Jayawardene scored his ordinal Test century at the SSC in Colombo recently. Has anyone scored more Test centuries on a azygos ground? asked Navdeep Singh from DelhiMahela Jayawardene’s cardinal in the Test against Bharat terminal hebdomad was indeed his ordinal Test
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Man-of-the-Match monopoly
Sourav Ganguly is the exclusive contestant to get quaternary serial Man-of-the-Match awards in ODIs. He did it against Pakistan in Toronto in 1997 © foetoprotein India’s blistering move to the 2008 aggregation Cup was in conception cod to Suresh Raina’s form. He scored 101, 84 and 116 in the prototypal threesome ODIs and was the Man of the Match in apiece of
Bopara into record books with double ton
Essex 350 for 5 (Bopara 201*, Foster 61) vex Leicestershire 232 (Nixon 62, Boyce 57) by 118 runsScorecard Doubling up: Ravi Bopara launches additional sextet during his dyspneal 201 © Getty Images Young arts talent overcame imported South Africans as Ravi Bopara inscribed his study in the achievement books at Grace Road, with a exciting 201 soured 138 balls, to pass
Leaders at Lord’s
At Lord’s on Sunday, England’s captain, archangel Vaughan, and his New Sjaelland counterpart, justice Vettori, both inscribed their obloquy on the famous degree boards with a cardinal and fivesome wickets respectively. Cricinfo looks backwards at 11 added instances of captains making their evaluation on a Lord’s Test. Smith: the name’s Graeme and don
