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Numbers Game >>
The opening gambit in the IPL

The opening partnership is crucial in any form of the game, but in the Twenty20 version teams have little time to recover after an early setback

Cricinfo XI >>
Welcome back, we weren't expecting you

Andrew McGlashan and Brydon Coverdale on players who made a return to the fold when their time appeared to have passed by

The List >>
On a hot streak

Players who have won and lost the most matches in a row

Ask Steven >>
The best seats in the house

Players who've featured in the most World Cups, the longest ducks, and being at the other end when six-hitters went about their business

All Today's Yesterdays >>
Packer: 30 years on

May 9: The day the world's top cricketers turned pirate

Reviews

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An old book for a new era

Ivo Tennant finds the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2008 is new, improved, and still worth the weight

Specials

Interviews
'Cricket's taken too seriously now'

The doyen of television presenters, Sir Michael Parkinson has played and followed cricket for half a century and has interviewed some of the game's finest. "It never was a matter of life and death, it never will be," he tells Nagraj Gollapudi

Interviews >>
The giant desperate to roar
Chris Tremlett hasn't played for England since his encouraging display against India last summer. At the start of the season he spoke to Cricinfo on his goals for 2008, and proving his detractors wrong. By Will Luke

Features >>
A royal fairytale
Boosted by the inspired, top-notch captaincy of Shane Warne, the Rajasthan side have been the romantic success story of the IPL. By Sambit Bal

Quote Unquote

"Luckily it was in my arc, so I closed my eyes and had a little swing at it and it went over the rope. It was my day."

Luke Wright explains how he reached his century against the New Zealanders with a six

Number Crunching

Did You Know?

The 163-run stand between Victor Stollmeyer and Kenneth Weekes for West Indies in The Oval Test in 1939 is the highest between two non-Waugh batsmen born on the same day. The Waughs, not surprisingly, shared the three highest partnerships of this nature, the one between Stollmeyer and Weekes being the fourth-highest