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Making catching a habit: Those who took catches in the most consecutive Tests and those who did not. And a look at players with highest proportion of matches with or without a catch
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Put the game before the brand: Thinking of cricket purely as a brand will only impede the clean-up the BCCI needs to undertake in the wake of the IPL mess
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Advantage lefties: Life's better in cricket if you're a left-hand batsman or bowler
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Warmed up for the World Twenty20: Getting through jet leg, training, keeping up with the election back home and then the small matter of playing a World Cup
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'Things are in place for a Zimbabwe resurgence': Coach Alan Butcher is optimistic about a revival. He talks about his role, the return of former players, the team's struggle for quality bats, and more
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Coming soon to a theatre near you: ... is S Ramesh, the former India opener, now trying to make his way as an actor. He talks about getting dropped, dealing with frustrations, and discovering his inner funny man
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Humble Pip: A team man, a hard worker, a fine player, a big brother, and most of all, down-to-earth
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Firing blanks: Dimi's five sixes, Shahadat's and Bond's hat-tricks, Malinga's four in four - all in vain
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Cricketing MPs, and stumped off a wide: Diamond ducks, five-for maidens, 20 in Twenty20, losing declarations, and more
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Willow patterns: The World Twenty20 has had high scores, good bowling, close finishes and impressive individual performances
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Five-star brick: Grasping a year in cricket is becoming a thankless task but the Almanack's roving eye is as keen and intelligent as ever
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The great new redhead hope: Not Polly, Rusty is South Africa's new un-hittable death-overs specialist - and lots more besides. Watch out for him at the World Twenty20
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Stumped for choice?: A modern great, a complete package, a natural, and a fighter feature in our wicketkeeper shortlist for Pakistan
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The pace-spin equation, and a D/L snippet: A look at how fast bowlers and spinners have fared in Twenty20 internationals, and the key to favourable targets in D/L matches
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Go figure it out yourself: By mollycoddling their charges and telling them how to fix each problem, coaches end up creating players who can't think or act for themselves. Is that what has happened to RP Singh and Ishant Sharma?
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The partition of India: An event that resulted in one of the most intense rivalries in sport
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To bat or field first, and the busiest batsmen: A look at the more profitable option in Twenty20 internationals, and the batsmen who play the least number of dot balls
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Worrell becomes captain: A cricketer and a gentleman who gave a sense of unity to West Indian cricket and championed the cause of player rights
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'I love Test cricket, but I'm also a realist': Shane Bond explains his retirement from long-form cricket, and talks about New Zealand's talent pool, his likely successors, and his plans for the future
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Strike fear with three: Fast bowling has been Pakistan's trump card, their national obsession, and a resource they have never been short of. Which men make it to the final XI?
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'I can express myself better opening': After his success at the top of the order in the West Indies, Mahela Jayawardene talks of the prospect of playing in that position in the 2011 World Cup
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What makes an ideal Twenty20 team?: You will need: an opener with timing; wicket-taking quicks; attacking, economical spinners; and a prodigious late-order hitter
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Attack, but skilfully: At no point in the history of one-day cricket has as much emphasis been put on taking wickets as there is now - though not too many are getting it quite right
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'You never forget things you've worked out yourself': Rod Marsh on keeping wicket, helping young talent grow, and in-flight drinking
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Cricketainment, eh?: The Stewart Regan email shows that cricket suffers from administrators frustrated with and contemptuous of the game they have been entrusted with
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Giles Clarke's empire strikes back: The ECB chairman has chosen to mix the business of English cricket with the pleasure of watching Lalit Modi squirm
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Cricket's net loss: Few changes to the Laws have been as drastic or, even without the benefit of hindsight, crazy than the one tried out by the MCC in 1900
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'Taking wickets should be a captain's top priority': Ian Chappell, among the most respected of Australian captains, talks about where modern captains have their priorities skewed, leadership in general, and why he won't be writing a book on the subject
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Stodge and Splodge and Duckworth and Lewis: The one-Test doc, quinquagenarian Test players, most runs in ODIs and in Twenty20s, and more
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The anomalous contraction of the Duckworth-Lewis method: The D/L method as applied to Twenty20 is a sawed-off version of the system governing ODIs. There's a need to adapt the method for the short form based on actual Twenty20 match data
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