Akhila Ranganna

England selectors must look to the future

Geoffrey Boycott in the Daily Telegraph writes that England have been strong enough to make a good first move with their captaincy appointments; they now need to show the same strength and start including some new faces in the one-day and

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

No captaincy ambitions for Swann

Stuart Broad was wearing Graeme Swann's tie when he was unveiled as England's Twenty20 captain at Lord's on Thursday

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Cook could pressure Strauss

The ECB has taken the radical decision to go with three captains, across the three formats, with Alastair Cook taking over the reins of the ODI side from Andrew Strauss, who remains Test captain, and Stuart Broad as captain in the Twenty20 format

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Botham's insults fired me - Amal Silva

Amal Silva , the former Sri Lankan wicketkeeper batsman, who scored a century at Lord's in Sri Lanka's first Test match in England, talks about getting sledged by his hero Ian Botham, choosing the school Prince of Wales ahead of St

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Ganguly's back

An editorial in the Indian Express analyses Sourav Ganguly's inclusion the IPL and states that the one thing we can all learn from his return is: never write Ganguly off.

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Parameswaran's quick gains

From being a net bowler for the Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise to picking up the Man-of-the-Match award in his debut IPL game against the Delhi Daredevils, which included the wickets of Virender Sehwag and Y Venugopal Rao, Kochi paceman Prasanth

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Shoaib Malik turns to club cricket

Desperate times call for desperate measures

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From slow-low to a belter

Over 400 runs were blasted at the Feroze Shah Kotla in the IPL game between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab on Saturday

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Cricket in the National Baseball Hall of Fame

Cricket is still to make make big strides in the USA but Peter Della Penna, writing on the website dreamcricket.com observes that visitors have reacted positively to experiencing cricket for the first time at National Baseball Hall of Fame.

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Players distracted by spidercam

It may enhance the viewing experience on television, but as far as some of the IPL’s players are concerned, the spider camera – a remote-controlled device suspended over the field from cables attached to floodlight towers – is a “distraction”

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

'Dhoni's like my brother'

S Sreesanth talks to Prasanth Menon in the Times of India on his performance in the World Cup, why he considers India captain MS Dhoni his brother, and his goals for the future.

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

ECB need to nurture Flower

England's team director Andy Flower is unlikely to be tempted by any offer to replace Gary Kirsten as the India coach, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian but the ECB would do well to make sure their diamond is not purloined by a third party, be

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Return of the prodigal

Tillakaratne Dilshan's appointment as Sri Lanka captain is justified, writes Rex Clementine in the Island because there is no doubting that he has been the best Sri Lankan batsman across all three forms of the game over the last couple of years

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A stadium gone to seed

Bihar's Moin-ul-Haq stadium last hosted an international match in 1996 when Zimbabwe played Kenya in the World Cup

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'No competition with UDRS'

One of the leading umpires in world cricket, Pakistan's Aleem Dar reflects on his World Cup stint, how the DRS has impacted umpires and why he finds the subcontinent difficult to officiate in

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The future beckons for Topley

Seventeen-year-old Reece Topley is leading wicket-taker in English first-class cricket this season

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'A victory beyond our imagination'

In a special supplement in the Deccan Herald marking India's World Cup win, R Kaushik speaks to Zaheer Khan, the man who almost single-handedly shouldered the burden of leading India's bowling attack and emerged the joint-highest wicket-taker of

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Living up to its promise

One of the primary objectives of the India Premier League was to to unearth Indian talent and bring relatively hidden skills to the fore in front of a global audience courtesy satellite television

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

What the 2011 World Cup showed us

Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times writes that the World Cup has once again established the primacy of the 50-over game

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No <i>Vaastu</i> woes for the Chargers

Deccan Chargers' victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore in Hyderabad on Friday was more than just a win for the home team

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