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(c)Cricinfo en-gb Looking back at the India v Pakistan World Twenty20 clash in Colombo on Sunday, Osman Samiuddin writes that over the past decade, India have become to Pakistan almost precisely what Pakistan were to India during the '80s and '90s http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622062.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622062.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Looking at the selection of the national selectors by the BCCI, an editorial in the Indian Express states that for once the BCCI can be spared the customary brickbats http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622060.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622060.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Virender Sehwag, who hasn't been among the runs in the ongoing World Twenty20, was left out of the India team for their final group encounter against England on Sunday http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622044.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622044.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Another Chanderpaul is on the rise, in club cricket in the Caribbean at least, and the teenage Tagenarine is learning his trade by batting with his accomplished father, Shivnarine, West Indies' highest run-scorer in Tests. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622036.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622036.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Loking back at England's capitulation against spin in their World Twenty20 game against India in Colombo, Simon Hughes writes that England have got it wrong http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622035.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622035.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Looking back on Kevin Pietersen's career, David Frith writes that Pietersen should now be enjoying some of his very best years http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622022.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622022.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Fire in Babylon - a film on West Indies cricket in the 1970s and 1980s releases in India on Friday http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622015.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622015.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Looking ahead to England's Test series in India, Mike Selvey in the Guardian reckons that a replacement for Andrew Strauss at the top of the order will be the No http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621975.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621975.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT England will enter the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka as defending champions, but without the player who was their star performer in the last edition: Kevin Pietersen http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621974.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621974.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Given how packed the cricket calendar is, the brief three-match Twenty20 series between Pakistan and Australia didn't seem to promise much http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621969.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621969.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The dilscoop became synonymous with Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan during the 2009 ICC World T20 http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621968.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621968.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Following a poor Test series against New Zealand, questions are being asked about Sachin Tendulkar's form http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621947.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621947.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Looking ahead to the three-match Twenty20 series between Pakistan and Australia, Osman Samiuddin in the National writes that while the temptation would be to approach it purely as intense and ideal preparation for the World T20, for Pakistan, it http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621938.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621938.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Despite the 2-0 Test series loss to India, Kris Shannon writes that there are a few positives that have emerged for New Zealand: most notably the emergence of a triumvirate of young seamers http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621937.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621937.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT One of the key performers for India in the Test series against New Zealand has been Cheteshwar Pujara http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621931.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621931.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT In the wake of Andrew Strauss's retirement, Suresh Menon on www.cricketnext.com , writes that in the end all captains must go - a sudden lack of form, an unexpected defeat, unshakeable self-doubt - it doesn't matter what form it takes http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621929.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621929.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Dennis Lillee, the former Australian fast bowler, who recently stepped down as the director of the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai talks to Jamie Alter on the fast bowling talent in India, India's changing attitude to fast bowling, injuries and http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621928.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621928.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Alastair Cook's life changed for ever last week when he was appointed to succeed Andrew Strauss as England's Test captain, writes Stephen Brenkley in the Independent http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621926.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621926.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The decline in attendance at county cricket has many causes but sometimes the game does not help itself, writes Glenn Moore in the Independent http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621925.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621925.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT "It was a complete shock when Andrew Strauss called me on Tuesday to say he was retiring," writes Stuart Broad in his column in the Daily Mail http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621910.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/621910.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT