Cricket Wars

Cricket Kenya refuses to sanction unauthorised event

Jan 22, 2013: Cricket Kenya's new chairman Jackie Janmohammed is facing the first challenge of her tenure with her board refusing to sanction a planned three-day tournament in Nairobi

1955

Plumbing the depths

Jan 12, 2013: When New Zealand set an unwelcome Test record that still stands almost 60 years later

Marginalised and messy

Dec 29, 2012: Associate nations slid further away from the spotlight this year, and several look unlikely to make their way back

1964

Desperate times... send for Blowers

Dec 15, 2012: When an injury-ravaged England were so short they almost had to send for Henry Blofeld

Kenya

Janmohammed faces uphill battle to arrest slide

Dec 4, 2012: The election of Jackie Janmohammed as Cricket Kenya chairman comes at a time when Kenyan cricket is not only at its lowest ebb since the heady days of the 2003 World Cup but is seemingly only heading in one direction

USA news

Maxwell insists USA T20 on track

Dec 4, 2012: Neil Maxwell, the man behind next year's professional USA T20 competition, has told ESPNcricinfo that he is confident the inaugural tournament will take place next July.

USA news

USACA eyes Associates in scaled-down league

Dec 3, 2012: The reality of finances and availability has led to a marked downscaling of the ambitious plan for a professional T20 league in the USA

Kenya news

Janmohammed faces battle to arrest slide

Dec 3, 2012: Kenya's new chief executive was involved during the glory days of 2003 but their current international prospects are bleak

1977

The Vaseline affair

Dec 1, 2012: When a discarded strip of gauze threatened to derail a series

USA news

Gladstone Dainty comes out fighting

Nov 22, 2012: USA Cricket Association president Gladstone Dainty has gone on record to explain his board's finances as well as the position of non-compliant leagues

1962

When players became cricketers

Nov 17, 2012: Fifty years ago this month the distinction between amateurs and professionals was finally abolished and they all become simply 'cricketers'

1886

The first team from India to visit England

Nov 3, 2012: Fifteen Parsees toured England in 1886, and though the results weren't great, they were well received

USA news

USACA must turn problems to its advantage

Nov 2, 2012: USACA is now at a crossroads and its critics - and they are fairly widespread - will be watching to see what happens next

USA news

USACA dismisses maverick secretary

Nov 2, 2012: Kenwyn Williams has been dismissed as executive secretary of USACA and removed as a director of the board with immediate effect

USA news

USACA considers next steps as attacks continue

Oct 31, 2012: The USA Cricket Association is considering its position after suspended executive secretary Kenwyn Williams involves the ICC

1981

India opens Pandora's ODI Box

Oct 20, 2012: They were the slowest country to embrace the one-day game, but they more than made up for it in the years that followed

1969

Viv Richards' two-year ban

Oct 6, 2012: When an outburst of petulance led him to do things he regretted years later

Harry Pilling 1943-2012

Lancashire batsman Harry Pilling dies

Sep 24, 2012: Harry Pilling, the former Lancashire batsman, has died at the age of 69. A right hander, he played for the county from 1962 to 1980

1967

Geoff Boycott's Indian bore

Sep 22, 2012: As the England opener showed, there are occasions when the score itself is less important than the way the runs are accumulated

1912

The soggiest of squibs

Sep 8, 2012: At the end of a wet summer, we look back to an even wetter one, and the death of a visionary idea

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