This week we look at the highest scores in final matches and by number-elevens, the most boundaries in an innings, the workings of the LG rankings and the 300+ ODI scores.

It’s Sunday morning, 11.34. I’ve got 26 minutes spare in which to compose this week’s musings, for that’s about the sum total of my free time between now and this time next week.

Shaun Tait was all set to be the new Brett Lee of the Australian side. Glenn McGrath had hung up his boots, and Lee was going to be busy trying to fill the huge-sized hole left by one of the best pacemen ever to have graced a cricket field. Australia needed someone with raw pace, who did not have to worry about being the best bowler in the side rather just had to be the fastest bowler in the side. Tait had the ability to be to Lee what Lee himself was to McGrath.

On the 11th of February I flew to India, Mohali to attend the Global Cricket Academy. I was there with all the Yorkshire batsmen and a couple of the spinners to get some pre-season batting under my belt.

Cricket will never be the same. The game that we know and love has been violently ripped out from under us.

A collection of photos from the Australia v England Women’s Ashes Test match have been uploaded into the photos section.

This week we take a look at the most successful teams at chasing runs in the night; the origins of the free-hit; and that most difficult of questions, who was the best bowler?

A little bit of double meaning in this week’s column. Firstly, a short update on last week’s musings, and then a few thoughts on the lifeblood of amateur societies the world over, the committee.

The “Comeback player of the Year” is an award for a player that through injury, loss of form or other reasons fell from the limelight only to return to prominence with a bang in 2007.

In the third edition of Ask the Spider, we bring you who the best batsman in the world is, the grounds that have had the most ODIs/Tests played at and much more.