Cricinfo’s experts look back on the key issues that dominated 2008
31-Dec-2008In this seven-part year-end audio special, Tony Greig, Ian Chappell, David Lloyd, Sanjay Manjrekar, Daryll Cullinan and others look back on the key issues that have dominated 2008: Australia’s struggles and the teams that have emerged as likely challengers, the crises and scandals, the captains who made a difference, the entertainers who bid the game goodbye, and the innovations that came into the game.
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‘Australia have never been more vulnerable’
Ian Chappell looks at the decline of a champion side
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‘India is the No.1 team’
Which team will end 2009 as No.1? Cullinan, Lloyd, Shastri, Manjrekar and Chappell discuss
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‘Dhoni looks to win every game’
Who’s the captain to watch out for? Lloyd, Manjrekar and Chappell predict
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‘We need a bigger panel of Elite umpires’
Umpiring errors, a racism row, and is cricket becoming a contact sport? The scandals that rocked 2008
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‘Zimbabwe and Bangladesh need their status reviewed’
Osman Samiuddin, Aamer Sohail and Derek Pringle on the problems facing some of cricket’s teams
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‘Goodbye to the greats’
Daryll Cullinan, Ian Chappell and Sanjay Manjrekar pay tribute to the year’s key retirees
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”Twenty20 will take players out of Test cricket’
David Lloyd, Geoff Boycott, Ian Chappell and Sanjay Manjrekar look at how cricket changed in 2008
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