Archive (Wisden Asia Cricket)

Gary Kirsten has called it a day

Does Muralitharan throw, or not

Rahul Bhattacharya looks back at five decades of India-Pakistan cricket - a saga in three parts

Is it sport or is it war

Picture the scene

Ramesh Powar's inclusion into the Indian one-day side for the tour of Pakistan is just reward for his consistency in the domestic circuit

The current boom in batting owes at least in part to a worrisome decline in bowling stocks and standards, and a change in the very nature of bowling, says Gideon Haigh

The error is that the whole debate is too often framed as technology v Humans

Cricket's splendour lies in the fact that while the best team on the day always prevails - that doesn't happen in football or hockey, where a fluke goal can win a game - there is still plenty of opportunity to bemoan your fate: the no-ball that

How does India's top and middle order compare to the great line-ups from the past

How did Rahul Dravid go from being a solid player to a stroke-filled, world-beating superman

He lasted nearly 20 years in Test cricket

In June 2003 Wisden Asia Cricket looked back at six of Brian Lara's best innings

Brian Lara told his life story to Rahul Bhattacharya, in an exclusive interview that appeared in the June 2002 issue of Wisden Asia Cricket magazine.

Rahul Dravid's 233 in the first innings of the Adelaide Test, which set up India's victory, was his third double-century in 10 Test matches, and just the latest in a series of occasions in recent times that he has played matchsaving or matchwinning

Why India should score their runs quickly and open with a right-left combination in Australia

Ricky Ponting, in an interview with Wisden Asia Cricket, about his seven Test hundreds in the year, the match-winning hundred in the World Cup final, and the captaincy of Australia's one-day side

At the time of writing, Abhijit Kale, a prolific, and by many accounts somewhat disillusioned, batsman in the domestic league stands accused by two national selectors of trying to bribe his way into the Indian side

Greg Chappell, in an interview with Wisden Asia Cricket,talks about how a side like India could conceivably replicate Australia's success

Sport and Terrorism first came together in the Munich Olympics of 1972, when 11 Israeli athletes were first kidnapped, then killed, by a Palistinean terrorist group called Black September