ESPNcricinfo staff16-Apr-2015Ballance and Joe Root, England's Yorkshire pair, resumed their partnership in the morning and took it in to three figures•Getty ImagesRoot passed fifty for the second time in the match... before playing the ball…
ESPNcricinfo picks its team of the 2015 season, with a limit of only four overseas players in the XIMathew Varghese25-May-2015One hundred and forty five. That's the number of players who got a game in this…
ESPNcricinfo staff29-May-2015Pakistan's bowlers were in the middle of a good spell, and two overs afters removing captain Hamilton Masakadza, Yasir Shah snaffled a return catch offered by Sean Williams to leave Zimbabwe on 122 for…
Trent Boult has shown, without doubt, that there are other ways of silencing batsmen than launching streams of invective towards themDanyal Rasool06-Jul-2015When Mitchell Johnson fell so far down the pecking order that even James Pattinson…
You can voice your choice with #BestLefty on Twitter and FacebookESPNcricinfo staff13-Aug-2015Brian LaraGetty ImagesA great batsman, and a supremely stylish one as well. In 131 Test matches, the Prince of Port of Spain scored 11,953…
Stats highlights from an unusual Ashes series in which the winning team didn't necessarily have the better statsS Rajesh25-Aug-2015In every way, this was a bizarre series. Out of a possible 25 days of cricket, there…
Jomel Warrican called his four-wicket performance on debut "average", but his day was made when he received his maiden Test cap from Garry SobersAndrew Fidel Fernando in Colombo22-Oct-2015Strange things must happen on the ride between…
ESPNcricinfo staff14-Oct-2015Shoaib Malik went past his previous Test best as England struggled to create chances•Getty ImagesEngland's bowlers toiled during a wicketless morning session•Getty ImagesMalik reached his maiden Test double-century during the afternoon•Getty ImagesHis performance was…
Brian Close was one of the most courageous cricketers ever to take to the field, but he was so much more than that and not only in Yorkshire will his immense qualities be reveredDerek Hodgson14-Sep-2015Posterity's…
The thrilling lives of the stars, laid bare for your delectationAlex Bowden27-Nov-2015Jimmy Neesham sledged us. — Careful, Jimmy. We have the power to shift the decimal point in your batting and bowling averages, you know.That…