It happened in '85

Apr 8, 2011: As the 2011 season gets underway, a county cricket watcher recalls his first year travelling the Sunday League grounds of 1980s Britain with a press pass-wielding father

India or Sri Lanka: whom to support?

Apr 2, 2011: Which team does a second-generation British Asian fan cheer for? It's not all that straightforward

India v Pakistan: a fantasy

Mar 24, 2011: Will the two sides meet in this World Cup? One can but live in hope

Hooked on torment

May 25, 2010: What are you if you switch the TV on at three in the morning knowing full well your team will probably get a pasting?

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Tout suite

Mar 7, 2010: You can't miss them if you're going to an Ashes Test in England: the bald, scarred, toothless gents who're dying to get you into the ground

Where did opinion go?

Feb 22, 2010: All too few men stand between us and the mind-numbing drivel that commentators and players spew these days

Ears glued to the cricket

Feb 14, 2010: In the years following India's independence, many fans' link to the game was the radio, usually owned by the English-speaking, all-knowing man of the town

Abbamania

Feb 8, 2010: Twelve years ago, Abdul Qadir, still good enough to turn out for Pakistan, spent a summer playing club cricket in Melbourne. The few who saw him remember it like it was yesterday

It happened at the G

Dec 26, 2009: Living 40 minutes away from the MCG is something you can come to take for granted, a homesick Victorian realises

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Eden on an impulse

Dec 7, 2009: India v Pakistan in Kolkata, Laxman and Ganguly at the crease. Fly into town for the day?

Thank you, uncles

Oct 16, 2009: There's nothing quite like watching cricket with grumpy old men for company

When trickery was afoot

Sep 11, 2009: On two spinners who made the special art of deception their own, and gave the game a gripping narrative in the process

Old school tie

Aug 20, 2009: On meeting a childhood hero - and letting him down

The loss of cricket's cadence

Jul 28, 2009: Cricket has outdone other sports in commercialisation, at the cost of the viewing experience - but perhaps that's no more than we deserve

Mr Backyard Cricket

Jul 24, 2009: A hunk of wood for a bat, stones for balls, his father's awkward action to face: Michael Hussey's initiation to cricket wasn't exactly indicative of what was to come

A Lahore landing

Mar 10, 2009: In 2004 Pakistan unrolled the red carpet for India. A look at the team's arrival in Lahore

The myth of the elegant left-hander

Mar 9, 2009: Why does the world insist that left-hand batsmen are naturally elegant and graceful?

The heart of the game

Feb 25, 2009: To experience cricket in Barbados is to feel the game at its purest, most joyous

Losing my religion

Nov 7, 2008: The change of guard in Indian cricket has pulled the rug out from under the feet of a generation of cricket watchers

Ode to a magazine

Sep 22, 2008: Thirty-six years after it first began publication, Pakistan's best loved cricket publication closed its doors this April

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