Resilient Sri Lanka overcome Test layoff
Sri Lanka will be pleased at having yielded no ground to Pakistan, after having been dormant in this format for so long. The pitch may have had the final say, but Sri Lanka were the…
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The club that produced 25 New Zealand internationals
Not just that - Albion CC in Dunedin is probably the oldest cricket club in AustralasiaWill Macpherson25-Jun-2014These are confusing - if heady - days for cricket in New Zealand. As modern legends have their names…
Moeen abuse shows cricket's dark side
The booing of Moeen Ali at Edgbaston revealed the ugly side of sporting rivalry and suggested intolerance remains in the UK. It should not be ignoredGeorge Dobell at Edgbaston07-Sep-2014It should have been the perfect end…
Cricket and cheese
In the wake of KP's cheese-heavy memoirs, here are nine more cricket-and-cheese stories. Where there's a will there's a wheyHenry Cowen17-Nov-2014Cheese. Why ever not? We're an optimistic bunch at AOC and in the wake of…
The perfect World Cup format?
With the present World Cup format under criticism for it's predictability, here are a few changes to make the knockouts more interesting for fans, sponsors and the teams themselves Anil Joseph03-Feb-2015Over the last few weeks,…
In search of the perfect World Cup format
There have been several changes in the number of participating teams, each inviting flak. Yet another change will be in force come 2019Rob Steen20-Jan-2015Alan Fordham's duties as compiler-in-chief of English county cricket's endlessly tortuous fixture…
Bangladesh's campaign to be proud of
ESPNcricinfo staff19-Mar-2015Captain's impact: It was then the turn of their captain, Mashrafe Mortaza, to make the game safe by reducing Afghanistan to 3 for 3•Getty ImagesChasing big: In the game against Scotland, the fourth member…
The life and murder of Claude Tozer
The talented Sydney batsman and doctor made it through World War I before fatally falling for one of his patients - just when he was in line for a Test debutGreg Growden01-Jun-2015Several hundred metres from Sydney's…
Chameera and the Sri Lanka injury carousel
Three of the top four quicks are currently sidelined, which left the 23-year old with undue responsibility and his inexperience was exposed Andrew Fidel Fernando in Colombo20-Aug-20150:54'Wicket was getting better for batsmen' - PrasadIn the…
Cricket's canny iconoclast
Jagmohan Dalmiya's legacy as an administrator, in India and at an international level, was underlined by a stubborn confidence and an ambition to take on the game's well-entrenched power centresSharda Ugra21-Sep-2015As the decades of the…