Specials

    Go figure it out yourself

Harsha Bhogle: By mollycoddling their charges, coaches create players who can't think for themselves. Is that what has happened to RP and Ishant?

    The pace-spin equation, and a D/L snippet

Numbers Game: A look at how fast bowlers and spinners have fared in Twenty20 internationals, and the key to favourable targets in D/L matches

    Advantage lefties

Aakash Chopra: Just what is it about left-hand batsmen and bowlers that gives them an advantage in the modern game? A look at some aspects

    Put the game before the brand

Gideon Haigh: Thinking of cricket purely as a brand will only impede the clean-up the BCCI needs to undertake in the wake of the IPL mess

    Firing blanks

Cricinfo XI: Dramatic overs that didn't affect the result of the games they featured in

    Does Duckworth-Lewis add up?

Switch Hit: A World Twenty20 round-up; and as England lose out to the rain again, Frank Duckworth defends his system