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Ryder assault had everything to do with alcohol

Soon after news of Jesse Ryder's terrible injuries made the news, we were assured by the NZCPA and Cricket Wellington that the violent assault on him was 'not an alcohol-related incident.'

01-Apr-2013•Samir Chopra

The instinct of walking away

Michael Jeh discusses the importance of training a cricketer's instincts to recognise and walk away from danger in public interactions

30-Mar-2013

Hot button cricket talk

Gideon Haigh joins Jarrod Kimber to discuss the ACC report, betting, drugs and TV deals

22-Mar-2013•Jarrod Kimber

Cricket washed down with Australia's mess?

With the critical report published into Australian sport, Michael Jeh looks at how relevant the 10 points are to cricket

02-Mar-2013•Michael Jeh

T20 vulnerable to Performance Enhancing Drugs

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

27-Feb-2013•Jon Hotten

Time to close the Rahul-Parnell case

By all accounts, Rahul and Parnell did what a pair of young men might do in a big city once the working day is done

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The drugs do work

World cricket could be on the cusp of facing a huge drugs problem

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Pardoning Agassi will allow other players to cross the line

Grand slam champion Andre Agassi's admission to using drugs during his career is not only damaging for his reputation but for the sport itself, writes Harsha Bhogle in the Indian Express .

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

'Viv's drug was his passion for cricket'

While rubbishing former Pakistan batsman Qasim Omar's claims that Viv Richards used to take performance enhancing drugs in his time, his brother Mervyn Richards has said the only thing that kept him going was an undying passion for the game

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Asif's tragedy is an indictment of Pakistan cricket

It is something of a fantasy to expect the Pakistan Cricket Board to be ranked with the world’s leading national sporting bodies

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

From McGrath to mug

Mohammad Asif is a passionate cricketer

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

WADA and out: no winners in the drugs scandal

Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif can heave a massive sigh of relief

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

What will Shoaib's drug test prove?

The fact that neither Shoaib nor Asif have yet taken the test seems incredible, and conspiracy theories were fuelled by Shoaib's outrageous behaviour last week

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

WADA yadda yadda

WADA's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport is an unusual one in that it is bypassing cricket's ruling body

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Divergence in doping policies will not work

How can cricket operate with such a wide divergence in the doping policies of a national board and the body that runs cricket?

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

WADA: less hectoring, more supervision, better evidence

Thank you all for a tremendoud debate on this important issue

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Justice is done

Kamran Abbasi supports the elimination of performance-enhancing drugs from sport but the authorities need to produce better diagnostic tests and stronger evidence to support the validity of their tests

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Why a rush to judgment for Shoaib and Asif?

"Rush to Judgment" might be the title of a book about the conspiracies surrounding the assassination of JFK, but it's a phrase that also neatly sums up the first hearing into the alleged drug use by Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Sad but we had to make an example of Shoaib - Alam

Intikhab Alam, one of the three-member panel that recommended the ban on Shoaib Akthar and Mohammad Asif, said he was sad but had no regrets about the decision

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Shoaib: What an almighty waste

The sight of Shoaib spreading his wings in celebration of a kill will become the stuff of legend, a DVD classic, a spook story that mothers will tell their would-be superstar children

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

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