England batsman Kevin Pietersen's colourful career has reached the 100-Test mark, and when he runs out in Brisbane for the first Ashes Test of the return leg, he will join a club of nine England players to pass three figures.
In fact, I'd 100% want Australia to win were it not for one thing: the whole hypocritical hoo-ha over walking. I mean, the Aussies fulminating over not walking! Strewth.
With Sachin Tendulkar playing his 200th and final Test for India this week, Twitter was abuzz on Thursday as he took to the field in Mumbai against the West Indies, first as a fielder after India chose to bowl, and then with the bat.
While Angelo Mathews has yet to reach great heights as a player, there is still plenty of time for improvement and the opportunity to improve mediocre career statistics.
The pressure is immense, the player is usually not in good form, or a bit over the hill, and the opposition is beyond fired up and eager to remove said batsman. Here are the a few of the legendary batsmen's final scores.
Guest columnist Scott Oliver ponders the future without Sachin Tendulkar, and says cricket, and India will survive the loss, though his 'everyman' replacement is not evident yet.
If rumours are to be believed, Andy Flower could well be stepping down as England coach at the end of this Ashes series. If and when he does leave he will look back on a team that has been carved in his own image and, like those Easter Island statues, the expression will be rather stern.
Cricket South Africa tried to reassure fans by saying they'd be giving Newlands an Australia Test, and that they wanted to give everyone a chance to get a fixture over the summer, but we reckon there are more sinister reasons afoot.
South Africa won the second Test by an innings and 92 runs on Saturday, with Imran Tahir again showing his worth and Asad Shafiq doing superbly for Pakistan.
Trying to gain an advantage to win a competitive match is as old as sport itself. Once again cricket's amazing ability to be pious and moralising has reared its head as it always does in such cases.
The partnership between South Africa Test skipper Graeme Smith and ODI counterpart AB de Villiers lasted for an entire match day, all told, and comprised the vast bulk of the 517 the Proteas scored in Dubai.
Guest columnist Peter Miller argues that Tests are perfectly safe, but ODIs are in danger of being even more irrelevant than they already are and should probably be retired.
A quick review of the day two action from Abu Dhabi, where Pakistan again dominated the South African side as Khurram Manzoor's century stood as the highlight.
The tributes poured in from all and sundry (especially England players) on Twitter, extolling the Little Master's virtues and one or two taking the mickey.
We all chose our heroes, and I would never tell someone they are wrong for having Sachin as their idol. He just isn't mine. For some reason Sachin has never meant that much to me.
Twitter may be scoffed at as a genuine source of news, but it's becoming more and more prevalent in cricketing circles due to its immediacy, and its ease to use when you want to sneakily keep track of a day's play from the office.
The County Cricket season has, as it usually does, come and gone in a flash and as the stumps are drawn on yet another fascinating and absorbing year, supporters are left with nothing more to do than countdown the days until their side do it all again.
A look at the fast bowlers around the world whose heads scrape the door frame, in light of England's new obsession with lanky pacemen like Steve Finn, Chris Tremlett and Boyd Rankin.
There is a sense of identity about England's Test Team whereas the one day members feel like a motley crew of individuals who have been clubbed together at the park entrance.
We look back on some of the topics of conversation that kept social media afloat during the Ashes tour, sometimes for days, from the silly to the serious, the cricketing to the not, and the bright spots between the rain delays.
The CLT20 is another big pay day for the players, with some big names making the trip in an already packed schedule. Here are some names we will be keeping an eye on, be it due to good form or just pure potential to thrill.
