When will we see the first truly freelance cricketer?

Jan 28, 2015: Will the likes of Pietersen become guns for hire in the full sense of the term, offering a complete package of services to the highest bidder?

The importance of cricket punditry

Jan 12, 2015: It may have started out as a bit of televisual fluff but it now is crucial in shaping perceptions of the sport

It's all in the arm angle

Jan 6, 2015: Baseball teaches us that deliveries that make the batsman rethink premeditated responses will succeed more often than not

What cricket can take from darts

Dec 25, 2014: It's simple, it's TV-friendly and it has a promoter who can tailor the product for its audience

All Sehwag's children

Dec 14, 2014: Batsmen like David Warner will lead the game into the next generation. One man heralded the trend

The joy of the excuse

Dec 2, 2014: They help you forget the fact that you're not a very good player

England's problem with attacking batsmanship

Nov 26, 2014: It has taken the country ages to get over its obsession with defensive batting and appreciate that the ball is there to be smashed

England need to wake up to ODI reality

Nov 18, 2014: If England are to keep abreast of more explosive sides like India, they need a radical change in approach, as Eoin Morgan recently stated

Why are England forever in transition?

Nov 6, 2014: Let's just admit it, the word is now just a euphemism, used to explain the standing of a team that was never very good at ODI cricket

Cricket's humanity resists specialisation

Oct 30, 2014: While major sports across the world are driving their competitors towards homogenous physical ideals, cricket seems to celebrate diversity

Cricket: complex, unknowable cricket

Oct 21, 2014: We, as players and spectators, are finite, but cricket, utterly brilliant in its design, is not

The psychology of bat-making

Oct 8, 2014: It's not the size of the bat that matters, it's the weight. And it's not in your hands, it's in your mind

Essay

Glovemen apart

Oct 2014: From eccentrics to game changers and now to leaders, where will - or won't - wicketkeepers go next?

The work that is county cricket

Sep 30, 2014: Players toil all season, but fans don't really get a sense of the scale of effort involved

What will cricket be like 50 or 100 years from now?

Sep 10, 2014: It's a daunting thought because it feels like the game has already completed its evolution, leaving little wriggle room

The parts of cricket that language forgot

Aug 26, 2014: There are feelings and situations in cricket that all of us are familiar with but can't describe succinctly

The complex art of picking openers

Aug 13, 2014: An opening pair requires good form and a happy blend of personalities to succeed. Perhaps Cook needs a new partner in the Strauss mould

Does Anderson need a verbal crutch?

Aug 6, 2014: It seems odd that a man who can make the ball talk like he does needs to resort to verbal aggression

Cook's Brearley lesson

Jul 30, 2014: Mike Brearley managed to remain an outstanding captain despite his consistent failures with the bat. Is there a lesson in there for England's current skipper?

A strange, brutal magic

Jul 23, 2014: As Ishant Sharma showed at Lord's, short-pitched bowling can open old wounds and create sudden uncertainty