The divine madness of Kevin Pietersen

May 23, 2013: Players who compel you to watch them and be engaged in the game, when absent, stir a yearning in the spectator that has nothing to do with team loyalty

The legend of Cardus lives on

May 13, 2013: Neville Cardus' writing is alive, full of daring and almost novelistic observation. Cricket writing owes him a debt of gratitude

The day I became a semi-international

May 6, 2013: Playing against the Japan national side in London on a cold April day is a story bound to be told several times over

We'll miss Mitch

Apr 29, 2013: Risky or not, Johnson is thrilling in his unpredictability. More's the pity we won't see him this Ashes

The philosopher captain

Apr 23, 2013: If captaincy was not regarded as an art before Brearley, it was after he had gone. His tenure may have been brief, but his impact endures still

Of unwritten laws and moral compasses

Apr 17, 2013: Cricket's relationship with its rules is a constantly evolving flirtation, unlike in golf, say, where things are more cut and dried

Twenty20

Gayle forces the pace of change

Apr 8, 2013: Clad in his space-garb, his gold pads and his gridiron helmet, shoulders rippling under his muscle shirt, Chris Gayle is an implacable object, driving cricket forwards, challenging the world to produce another batsman that plays like him

England

Anderson, greatness and England's lost generation

Apr 3, 2013: Over the course of England's next series, James Anderson should become the 26th bowler to take 300 Test wickets. That no Englishman has reached 400 - or 10,000 runs with the bat - is indicative of how the record books left them behind

Legends

The incredible legacy of WG Grace

Mar 25, 2013: In the space of eight days in 1876, WG Grace scored 839 runs, including two triple hundreds. He shaped the game we know today, inventing technique and influencing bowling

In name and deed?

Mar 18, 2013: Modern bat manufacturers seem to be going to increasingly absurd lengths in coming up with exotic nouns in which batsmen can attempt to locate idealised versions of themselves

South Africa

Barry Richards, sporting tragedy and human suffering

Mar 4, 2013: Although he only played in four Tests prior to the sporting boycott of South Africa, Barry Richards still managed to confirm his greatness. However, the tragedy of his lost international career must be set in the context of a far greater struggle

Drugs

T20 vulnerable to Performance Enhancing Drugs

Feb 27, 2013: The game's shortest format can learn lessons from baseball in particular when it comes to the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs

What is momentum anyway?

Dec 20, 2012: The m-word gets thrown about a lot in cricket, but what does it really mean?

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