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Nerves of steel and a heart of flint
The life and times of controversial umpire Darrell HairGideon Haigh28-Sep-2006 Darrell Hair: plunging the cricket world into dismay ©
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Ramdin's spunk, and Kumble the matchwinner
In the end India finally delivererd the knockout punch and sealed a series victory, but it was much closer than Rahul Dravid would have anticipated wh
Sehwag and Hayden trade verbal blows
A day of attrition was followed by a round of verbal volleys with both camps criticising the other for not pushing for victorySiddhartha Vaidyanathan
Dazzling, delicate; a reassuring presence
Inzamam-ul-Haq may not have kept it all together all the time; he couldn’t. But he was there through all of it, the highs, the lows, the thick, the th
Taylor made for the future
England’s newest sensation is a teenage wicketkeeper who’s among the youngest to have made an ODI centuryJenny Thompson10-Feb-2008 Sarah T
Operational gaffes cloud lofty vision
Repeated bunglings by WICB officials have embarrassed West Indies cricket Tony Cozier13-Apr-2008 Jerome Taylor has his name spelled incorr
The inimitable
If you were a schoolboy in Gloucestershire in the 1970s, there was no question who you wanted to beJohn Inverdale16-Jul-2008 Proct
Hit machine
A dashing, attacking batsman, he kept New Zealand cricket shining through its dark daysJohn Mehaffey30-May-2008 Reid: particularly
Settled West Indies eye trophy
For a change, West Indies are ahead in the series and the issues of unfitness, absenteeism and leadership that have stalked them in recent times are n