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Ask Steven >>
An average of 207

The man who made a double in his only match, the best batsmen against Australia, and players who've made their first-class debut in a Test

The Week That Was >>
Wild ducks, fried chicken, and Bengali No. 1

Harbhajan outrages Sikhs, Cricket Australia "promotes" obesity, and a team loses its balls. By Nishi Narayanan

Rewind to >>
All out for 12

When Oxford University capitulated to what is still the lowest first-class score on record

Numbers Game >>
The Ganguly story in numbers

After his 12-year international career, the stats indicate that Sourav Ganguly has largely fulfilled the potential that was obvious in his Test debut

All Today's Yesterdays >>
England's first black cricketer

October 13: Roland Butcher is born, and Wasim Akram takes a hat-trick

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Books >>
Green and bland

Alastair Cook's autobiography, Starting Out: My Story So Far, offers little that's new or interesting, writes Freddie Auld

Quote Unquote

"I have never seen an Australian team play such defensive cricket - which is a good thing for us."

Fresh from his Man-of-the-Match performance in the Bangalore Test, Zaheer Khan fires a salvo against Australia

More quotes: 'There used to be a bloke who gave himself out by walking'

Specials

Interviews >>
Home and away
Mushtaq Ahmed, county cricket's finest overseas signing, talks of how he had to leave his country to get his due, and the change religion has made to his life and career. Interview by Sriram Veera

Must-Read Books >>
Player pages
Reading David Foot's conversational profiles of cricketers in Beyond Bat and Ball is like sharing in the camaraderie of a dressing room. By Gideon Haigh

Interviews >>
Simple man, simple plan
Kevin Pietersen may not be too experienced, but no one could be more up for the job of England captain. "I'm so, so driven," he tells Will Luke

Number Crunching

Did You Know?

Glenn Turner has played the two longest ODI innings in terms of balls faced. He faced 201 deliveries for his 171 not out against East Africa at Edgbaston in the first World Cup in 1975. Just a week later he made 114 not out against India at Old Trafford, facing 177 balls that time