Things have gone from bad to worse since my last article! Having recovered from the tear of my hamstring, I was selected to play for Yorkshire 2nd XI vs Notts and was told a decent knock and I would be back in the 1st team.

This week we look at the batting and bowling averages in all decades of Test cricket, the ODI captains who got on a run, and a fair few other little obscurities.

If all had gone well, we would have seen the return of Andrew Flintoff to England’s Test team today. We’ve read quite a lot about Flintoff lately, and indeed over the past year during the time he’s been out of Test match action. He’s copped a fair bit of criticism since the end of the 2006/07 Ashes, and we will now look at how fair, or not, this criticism is.

What if the IPL was held 10 years ago? Who would the top players be and who would they play for? Part I of this article does a bit of inverse crystal ball gazing.

This week we look at the origins of the ODI and of the game itself, the most 10-fors, the best Test bowling analyses, the fastest double-centuries, and the longest games.

We are now three weeks into the season and things have gone well from a team point of view and a personal point of view.

This week we look at the big wicket hauls on debut, the double-centuries in a series, the highest duplicate scores, the most powerful hitters, and Ian Botham’s decline.

Version v2.03 of Cricket Coach has been released. This patch updates the game to the 2008 season, updated squads/players and more.

The great game of cricket has been subject to many changes in its glorious history and none more so than in the past ten years.

Technology is now playing its part to put the home viewer in “the best seat in the house”. Playing schedules have become far more demanding on the players; some rule changes have been implemented in all forms of the game to help keep matches as appealing as possible, and to help keep the players on the park playing when there is rain or poor light delays.

This week we look at the dual internationals, the high-scoring wicketkeepers, the twin-century makers, the big and early partnerships… and Darrell Hair’s Test debut.