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April 24, 2019 India

Did you see MS Dhoni fail to hit the ball when Chennai Super Kings only needed two to win?

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April 5, 2019 India

How has Virat Kohli been dealing with his recent inability to lay bat on ball?

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March 26, 2019 England / India

Is Jos Buttler asking for a mankad?

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March 21, 2019 India

Delhi Daredevils have become a great deal more risk-averse

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January 15, 2019 India

Is MS Dhoni still a great finisher or merely a very enthusiastic witness of finishes?

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January 8, 2019 Australia / India

Are India brilliant? Are Australia shit?

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December 27, 2018 Australia / England / Features / India

Australia were far and away the funniest cricket team in 2018 – but who was their MVP?

7 minute readThe story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we’d instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a

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December 19, 2018 Australia / India

The angry exchange between Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja basically just ends up comical once it’s been translated

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December 18, 2018 Australia / India

Why India deserved to lose in Perth – explained with reference to a videogame that it turns out wasn’t actually Ikari Warriors after all but was pretty similar

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December 14, 2018 Australia / India

Why are India so keen to keep Ravindra Jadeja in his pigeonhole?

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