Stanford 20/20 / Features

Why divide and rule is good for West Indies

May 11, 2013: It's high time they had a split captaincy like many other international teams; and now they do

A classic turns fifty

May 9, 2013: A passionate expression of CLR James' love for an imperialist game, the book was rooted in a quest to rid the world of racism and class oppression

How do West Indies get competitive against the top sides?

May 4, 2013: It's a big ask, considering Test cricket is being given short shrift and T20 ambitions are being allowed to run rampant

Who'd have thunk it?

Apr 29, 2013: Some Test series that didn't end up quite as they were expected to

How does one bowl to Chris Gayle?

Apr 27, 2013: Mission impossible? Not quite

Spinners alive and kicking in T20

Apr 19, 2013: Big bats, unorthodox strokes and short boundaries can't beat a canny spinner

Unravelling the Narine mystery

Apr 13, 2013: How does the KKR offspinner continue to bamboozle batsmen? Because he knows when to bowl what

Bangalore v Kolkata, IPL 2013, Bangalore

Gayle marries brain with brawn

Apr 12, 2013: Twenty20 is not about mindless slogging; calculative assaults are the way to go as Chris Gayle demonstrated yet again, against Kolkata Knight Riders

Behind Jamaica's hot streak

Apr 10, 2013: Their record is the envy of Caribbean first-class cricket, but it needs to be put into context

Coaching kills the batting star

Apr 7, 2013: Young batsmen seem to be developing more slowly these days than in the past

Chandu Borde

'In cricket you always get a second chance'

Apr 3, 2013: Chandu Borde played Gilchrist and Griffith without a helmet and padding and has lived to tell the tale

You shall not pass

Apr 1, 2013: England's great escape in Auckland was the 21st time a Test ended with a team nine wickets down in the fourth innings. Here are 11 such cliffhangers

Comeback kids make good for West Indies

Mar 23, 2013: Shane Shillingford and Shannon Gabriel were the latest bowlers in West Indies' attack to notch up a successful series

You're fired

Mar 18, 2013: Australia recently dropped four players for failing to fill in a report. Here are more strange reasons for missing a Test or leaving a tour

The best after the Don? That's a toughie

Mar 18, 2013: Introducing the next theme in our series: the second-finest batsman ever (after you know who)

Twenty20 batting winner

The six that rang out across the world

Mar 11, 2013: When T20's biggest stars failed on its biggest occasion, a fallen star shone the brightest

Statsguru Awards

Clarke and Ajmal take top honours

Mar 11, 2013: The players of 2012, as decided by the numbers. Also starring Shane Watson, Ian Bell and Mohammad Hafeez

West Indies cricket

Headaches for West Indies selectors

Mar 3, 2013: The selectors are likely to be pilloried whoever they pick for the upcoming Tests and ODIs and with their best players regularly unavailable, their job remains complicated

Meet West Indies cricket's new wealthy benefactor

Mar 3, 2013: Entrepreneur Ajmal Khan's interest in the Caribbean Premier League might remind you of Stanford, but the WICB seems confident it won't be a repeat

The Bowling Was Superfine

Large-hearted, red-blooded, Caribbean

Feb 24, 2013: A capacious anthology that straddles genres and themes and contains a multitude of voices in an attempt to capture West Indian cricket