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Rise and fall

Mathew Varghese and Travis Basevi look at the biggest year-on-year improvements and declines in players' batting and bowling averages

Ask Steven >>
A hundred and a 99, a hundred and a duck

Falling one short of two centuries in a Test, the biggest last-innings scores to lose, and the highest current overall batting average

Numbers Game >>
The year of South Africa and Graeme Smith

The year of the IPL also contained some memorable moments from Test cricket. A look back at the key stats from 2008

The List >>
Defeated after declaring

Matches where declarations didn't quite work, like England's against India in Chennai recently

All Today's Yesterdays >>
The end of an era

January 7: The last day of one of the longest and most successful Test careers, which began in 1971, as Imran Khan takes the field against Sri Lanka in Faisalabad

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A legendary selection

A year after he published a list of the top cricketers he played with, Shane Warne has expanded his sights. By Jarrod Kimber

Quote Unquote

"He's always likening himself to Matthew Hayden so we thought we'd take a look. It didn't work, but I was very happy to get through with only his casualty."

South Africa coach Mickey Arthur on Morne Morkel's brief stint as opener

More quotes: 'How wonderful it would be to sack the boss'

Review 2008

Looking out for No. 1
Series wins in England and Australia - could 2008 have been any better for South Africa? By Colin Bryden

The crash of 08
It's been quite the rude awakening: after over a decade of unstinting dominance, Australia were finally brought down to earth last year. By Peter English

Bowlers 4, Batsmen 1
Cricinfo's senior editors on the best passages of cricket they watched in 2008

Number Crunching

Did You Know?

Number of players who have made over 1000 runs in a Ranji Trophy season. Two players, Wasim Jaffer and Ajinkya Rahane of Mumbai, passed the milestone in 2009.