Lancashire

Ten Lancashire players sign deals

Feb 25, 2013: Ten Lancashire players have agreed new deals with the club the day after they were relegated in the Pro40.

Indian Cricket League

It's county cricket v ICL

Feb 25, 2013: With most players on seven-month contracts, Steve James in the Telegraph believes the counties must ditch their efforts to control players all year round

Indian cricket

Yuvraj can still be a Test player

Feb 25, 2013:

Indian Cricket League

ICL welcomes Bangladesh players

Feb 25, 2013: Six cricketers from Bangladesh have joined the Indian Cricket League (ICL) and I think there is a message in it for the cricketing world, says Sandeep Patil in his column on cricketnext.com .

ICL 20-20 Domestic Tournament

Raring to go

Feb 25, 2013: The last ICL tournament really raised the bar in terms of fielding standards and player fitness, so all the players will be keen to raise the level even higher this year

Indian cricket

On a purple pitch

Feb 25, 2013: Racked by injuries and threatened by the rise of younger pace bowlers, Zaheer Khan has been through a lot in his eight years of international cricket

Ashes

Ashes coincidence

Feb 25, 2013: Australia's decision to drop Andrew Symonds, something they did just before the defeat in the 2005 Ashes, is one of the coincidences ahead of next year's greatly-anticipated series between England and Australia, writes Derek Pringle in the Daily

Indian cricket

Playing to keep

Feb 25, 2013: Dinesh Karthik, the Indian wicketkeeper, who is part of the India A squad for the A Team Triangular series, is trying to make his way back in to the national side after a disappointing tour of Sri Lanka

Politics

The murder of Pakistan cricket, a fan writes

Feb 25, 2013:

English cricket

A reality show of sickening vulgarity

Feb 25, 2013: Steve James is appalled about the future of the game as the Stanford 20/20 for 20 draws closer

Australian Cricket

Jason Who?

Feb 25, 2013: From Michael Sheppard, Australia The recent selection of Darren Patinson by England only a couple of months ago looks positively normal when put alongside the strange picking of Jason Krejza for India, an off-spinning bowler with batting

World Cricket League

Scuderi to lead Italy in World Cricket Division

Feb 25, 2013: By Tony Munro

Pakistan cricket

Where is Pakistan?

Feb 25, 2013: From Brendan Layton, Australia I'm taking time out to lament to decline of the Pakistan cricket team, which has fallen from world beaters to chugging along side the West Indies in a struggle to catch up.

Trivia - bowling

Good in isolation, great as a pair

Feb 25, 2013: Even though the batsmen always bat in pairs, it is in bowling that the players are very effective operating in tandem

Germany

Championship decider in Germany

Feb 25, 2013:

Sri Lankan cricket

A Test drive for Sri Lanka

Feb 25, 2013: It's a predicament for Sri Lanka with the team not playing Test cricket until May 2009 in England

Australia in India 2008-09

Buchanan upbeat about Australia's chances

Feb 25, 2013: Former Australia coach John Buchanan, who oversaw his team’s historic Test series win in India in 2004, believes the current Australian squad picked for the tour of India, despite its inexperience, has the wherewithal to repeat the feat

New Zealand cricket

New Zealand's middle path

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Fulton and James Marshall may feel a little hard done by with the announcement of the New Zealand squad for the tour of Bangladesh

English cricket

Redemption song

Feb 25, 2013: Stephen Brenkley, in the Independent on Sunday , reveals how county cricket has offered solace to Marcus Trecothick and Steve Harmison after both endured tough times after the highs of the 2005 Ashes triumph.

Australia in India 2008-09

Worrying times these

Feb 25, 2013: Referring to the blasts in New Delhi on Saturday, Anand Vasu in the Hindustan Times feels that India may well be following the status of neighbours Pakistan with regard to a global boycott.