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APRIL 17, 2013

Of unwritten laws and moral compasses

Jon Hotten: Cricket's relationship with its rules is a constantly evolving flirtation, unlike in golf, say, where things are more cut and dried

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Time to rethink the LBW law?

Nilesh Jain: The LBW law has achieved the same place in cricket that the offside rule has in football - just watch a fan explaining either of them to someone else

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Cricket's quirky rules that defy logic

Aakash Chopra: When GB Shaw said "the golden rule is that there are no golden rules", it made for marvellous lyrics

AUGUST 31, 2012

Criticising Mankading is double standards

Paul Leary: A batsman who ignores a warning and continues to leave his crease before the ball is bowled is surely contravening the spirit of the game, rather than the bowler, even if it's unintentional

AUGUST 04, 2012

Laws for fairytale giants

Andrew Hughes: Surely they need to be different from those for commonfolk. Time to give Steven Finn an exemption, then

JULY 27, 2012

Cricket rules vs common sense

Balachandhran S: Alook at three new modifications to the rules of the game which seem dubious at best and at odds with the spirit of the game, at worst

FEBRUARY 07, 2012

Someone, please explain the D/L method

Michael Jeh: I'm no mathematician. Messrs Duckworth & Lewis clearly have brains vastly superior to mine

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Faux objectivity: The murky business of light meters

Samir Chopra: But what precisely are the light meters protecting the cricketers (and us) from? From conditions where the light is either "too poor to play" or is "dangerous"?