Close of play: Day 1: Day 2: Gentlemen 1st innings EW Dawson c Hendren b Sibbles 14 RES Wyatt c Newman b Durston 26 +MD Lyon c Brown b Hearne 18 H Ashton b Hearne 13 ERT Holmes b Newman 42 LH Tennyson ...

by Deivarayan Muthu If Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine are first-generation T20 legends from Trinidad and ...

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Stuart Broad was born in England but made in Australia. His win-at-most-costs approach has ensured a complicated relationship with both countries. In Australia, during the 2013-14 Ashes, he was the ...

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The game turfed Ian Meckiff out in his prime. More than 50 years on, he still doesn't have a bad word to say about it Some cricketers are lucky enough to leave the game on their own terms. Others get ...

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The top 50: 1-10 | 11-20 | 21-30 | 31-40 | 41-50 No. 31 Viv Richards: 76 and 74 Australia v West Indies, Adelaide, 1980 "We're starting to realise how teams who played against Bradman and Sobers felt, ...