Akhila Ranganna

Fifty-over or 40-over cricket?

In the Daily Telegraph Steve James says that while Cricket Australia seem to be on the right track as they are likely to reconsider the split-innings experiment and instead revert to 50-over cricket for the Australian state cricketers, what is

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Pakistan needs the right hand on the tiller

Tracking the latest fallout between Shahid Afridi and the PCB, Dileep Premachandran writes that there will be those that say Afridi spoke out of turn, that he has always lacked tact

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The right man to steer South Africa

Writing on supersport.com Kepler Wessels says that South Africa are in safe hands with Gary Kirsten at the helm

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Problems for Strauss, Broad

Everyone talks about Kevin Pietersen and his problems against slow left-armers but following Andrew Strauss' dismissal to Welegedara in the second innings at Lord's, Nasser Hussain in the Daily Mail reckons the England captain has clearly got an

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Dilshan the tease torments England

Tillakaratne Dilshan puts bowlers in a quandary, observes Simon Hughes in the Daily Telegraph

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Anderson is being missed

England's bowlers have struggled for rhythm at Lord's and David Lloyd believes that there is no doubt that they are missing James Anderson's expertise as a swing and seam bowler

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Shortchanged at the Oval

At the end of the Twenty20 game in Trinidad between India and West Indies, it was the fans and spectators who were shortchanged, according to Tony Cozier

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In the swing at the counties

New Zealand batsman Kane Williamson played his first match for English county side Gloucestershire last month

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Why we need to talk about KP

Everyone connected with England these days is asked the Pietersen question, writes Stephen Brenkley in the Independent

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England punished for sloppiness

With all the pre-match talk centred around the height of England's pace attack and the potential for hostility and bounce, there was always a danger they might just lose their focus with the ball observes Jonathan Agnew on BBC Sport

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Prior's ODI conundrum

England wicketkeeper Matt Prior scored his fifth test hundred on the second day of the Lord's Test against Sri Lanka

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England need to address few batting issues

England have batted exceptionally well as a group for a long time now observes Nasser Hussain in the Daily Mail , but a couple of issues have crept in that they just need to be careful about.Sri Lanka will have noted that Strauss does have a

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Will Test cricket's pleasures be diluted?

Jade Dernbach's selection for the Lord's Test was a watershed for the England team which could have contained more players born in South Africa and Ireland than in Britain writes Barney Ronay in the Guardian

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Australia turn to spin kingmaker

He is the inventor of the doosra and today, former Pakistan offspinner Saqlain Mushtaq is fast becoming a spiritual mentor for Australia's current crop of spin bowlers observes Phil Lutton in the Age

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Will Pietersen's travails continue?

Kevin Pietersen has been dismissed 19 times by left-arm spinners in Test cricket - including falling to Rangana Herath in the first Test in Cardiff

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Will bounce do it for England?

England look like they are going to play three fast bowlers at Lord's writes Nasser Hussain in the Daily Mail , but while Sri Lankan cricketers may not be used to the bounce and carry, England must avoid getting carried away with too much of the

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

'Movies are a complete rip-off'

Australia's Dirk Nannes, currently playing for Surrey opens up to Paul Doyle on playing Twenty20 in England, his love of Lego and why he hates the movies

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Strauss' 'sliding door' moment

Sport is full of turning points that could have led to a parallel universe, as the England captain demonstrated in the first Ashes Test in Brisbane observes Mike Selvey in the Guardian

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Can Sri Lanka recover?

Looking back at the Sri Lanka's shock defeat in Cardiff, Andy Bull in the Guardian writes that while no one is quite sure how the visitors threw away the first Test, a recovery in time for the second Test is not inconceivable

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

England's great escape, version 2.0

Looking back on England's win against Sri Lanka in the first Test, Johnathan Agnew in his column on BBC Sport writes that there were very few people in the stadium in Cardiff to see one of the most extraordinary England wins in recent years and I

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