Four fielders surrounding the bat, a batsman lunging forward to meet a flighted delivery three feet outside the crease...
Sachin Tendulkar overtook Australian great Allan Border to become the second highest run scorer in the Test cricket.
The intensity shown by Australia in the ODI series in India is drawing comparisons with the great West Indies side following their shock defeat in the 1983 World Cup final.
Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan took his world record 709th Test wicket on the third day of the first Test against England.
Ganguly's maiden double century and Irfan Pathan's highest individual Test score enabled India to pile on agony on Pakistan.
Sourav Ganguly became the 7th Indian cricketer, and the oldest, to play 100 Tests, when he took the field at the MCG on Wednesday.
Ides of March have gone by but it seem to have struck late at the star-studded Indian squad with a vengeance.
England set a record by naming an unchanged team for the sixth Test in a row.
Ponting has scoffed at suggestions that Aus were in danger of losing No. 1 ranking due to retirement of senior players.
Ricky Ponting became the 7th man to score 10,000-Test runs enroute to his 65 on the 1st day of the Antigua Test.
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