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From club to country in one week

Desperate times call for desperate measures... but so desperate as to call up a bowler who only made his first-class debut 24 hours earlier to open the attack in a Test?

Numbers Game >>
The flattest ODI pitch in the world

One-day cricket isn't much fun for the bowlers at the best of times, but in the Asia Cup theirs has been an especially unenviable job. By S Rajesh

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Help the aged

Martin Williamson and Andrew McGlashan look at 11 players who made ODI appearances after their 40th birthday

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Worth the wait

Cricketers who've had to wait years, some even more than a decade, to go past hundred for the first time. By Travis Basevi and George Binoy

All Today's Yesterdays >>
He should have been a paceman

July 5: Birth of Tony Lock, a left-arm spinner whose career makes Phil Tufnell's look boring

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The cap that became a crown

Peter English on a book that meticulously traces the evolution of an enduring symbol of Australian sporting excellence

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Golden oldies

Should you wish to discover just what sorts of men the pre-1940 players whose names still appear in the all-time Test tables were, you would do well to dip into Ray Robinson's Between Wickets. By David Frith

Tributes >>
The endurance of the 'Big Fella'
He was only the second to take a hundred Test wickets against Australia, the only one to dismiss Bradman five times in a row. He was England's inexhaustible colossus in the lean post-war years. Alan Hill salutes Alec Bedser on his 90th birthday

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Signing off on a high
After having been written off in the wake of their performance in the Tests, New Zealand managed to finish their tour. Ross Taylor looks back on his maiden series in England

Quote Unquote

"I think their minds were already on the plane home. I am just not sure they were here to play today."

Jamie Siddons on Bangladesh's performance in the last league match of the Asia Cup

Number Crunching

Did You Know?

The highest score by the third hat-trick victim in a Test is 237. This was by Pakistan's Saleem Malik, against Australia at Rawalpindi in 1994-95, when he became the third man in Damien Fleming's Test-debut hat-trick.