Nishi Narayanan looks at a week where Shane Warne’s beer secrets are revealed, a cricketer is told he wasn’t meant to be picked, and the chance of meeting players costs Rs500.
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This week we loom at batsmen have boosted their career records by scoring heavily in dead rubbers and those who haven’t been able to sustain their impressive career averages in relatively inconsequential matches.
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India and Pakistan have both picked young captains over the last few months. Cricinfo takes a look at XI instances when selectors decided to plump for fresh blood at the helm over seasoned campaigners.
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Although Paul Harris managed only 11 wickets in his first four Tests, a hugely successful tour of Pakistan earned him another 12 in only two Tests and allowed him to outshine his much-publicised team-mates.
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Australia are so damn good that they make cricket boring. It took a below-par performance from them in Chandigarh - 16 wides were bad enough but that they cost 15 further runs would point to a wretched day for Adam Gilchrist behind the wicket - to bring the series, which was fast becoming a contest only in terms of bad behaviour, alive. And with every Indian loss, the cry got more shrill: how long can India carry the Big Three? .
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As anybody who has ever tossed a coin knows, the more times something happens, the more predictable it should become. But this rule is currently being blatantly broken by international cricket.
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Australians will know more about their political leaders in the lead-up to the November 24 federal election and by then they will have also learned about the direction favoured by the nation’s cricket decision makers.
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