George Binoy

Deputy editor, ESPNcricinfo

Cricket's biscuit factory

Think of the IPL as a maker of biscuits (or fruitcakes, if you like) and the Season 2 migration as merely a means of staying in business, writes Sharda Ugra in India Today .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

World champions. And we'll never forget it.

We spent last night celebrating our victory

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Testing times as Strauss returns to one-day fold

Andrew Strauss returns to one-day cricket for the first time in almost two years against West Indies with the added responsibility of captaincy, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Domestic strife at root of one-day woes

As defeats go, England’s humbling by West Indies in the Twenty20 match in Trinidad on Sunday was just one more black mark on a one-day landscape that, for nearly two decades, has looked dark indeed, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Should England be helping the Aussies?

County cricket clubs are falling over themselves to get Australians ready for the Ashes

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Bats out of hell

Is the current Indian batting line-up the best ever to visit New Zealand

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Many hits, very few misses

In the Times of India , Bobilli Vijay Kumar writes that the flexibility within India's batting line-up is a major reason for their success.

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

England fail to enter Twenty20 party spirit

England could not even bat out their 20 overs, so overwhelmed were they by the atmosphere and their own ineptitude

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Dhoni the deep-sea fisher

Cricket tours are hectic, with weeks passing by in a blur of venues, hotels and airports

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Australia's secret Ashes selection strategy

Read Mike Ticher's satirical take on the thinking behind Australia's squad selection in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Without fear, Viru’s come into his own

There is a secret to Virender Sehwag's fearlessness, a trait that resides in all those who are happy to live with risk; or indeed risk as most of us perceive it

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Ego, pride or bomb?

Lalit Modi may be about to face his biggest challenge in the IPL yet and it may come from the source he would least expect, the players

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

England can take few positives from West Indies

I am sure the England captain and the England Cricket Board spin doctors will tell us there are lots of positives to take out of this tour

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Teams need to review their own decision-making

England were denied in Trinidad for plenty of reasons, but the most galling was their failure to grasp the umpire review system

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

One-day skills will sort team's top and tail

The top and tail of the New Zealand test team will be the focal points for the national selectors when they get out the whiteboard in Hamilton today, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Strange signals to Prince

Ashwell Prince, South Africa's captain and opener for the third Test against Australia, may well be scratching his head, wondering whether he has been handed a garland or a hand grenade, writes Rob Houwing on Sport24 .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Batsmen calling the shots

Late on Sunday night, after the crowd — treated to 726 runs in 95.1 overs — had drained, Sachin Tendulkar, in a revealing moment of emphasis, said, “We can change the momentum like that,” and snapped his fingers, writes S Ram Mahesh in the Hindu .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

The secret to playing Tests for Australia

Why did some prolific run-scorers in domestic cricket - like Jamie Siddons, Brad Hodge, Martin Love, Jamie Cox and Darren Lehmann - not have long Test careers for Australia

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

England fight to save series

The draw is heavy favourite but, if England can bowl out West Indies by lunch today, it is by no means curtains yet, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Attack on Sri Lankan cricketers will not stop the IPL

Whatever the future, cricket lost what was left of its innocence when the gunmen opened fire near the Gaddafi stadium and the number of security personnel who fired back, in defence of the Sri Lankan players and match officials, was suspiciously few,

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