George Binoy

"Although its architects will deny the charge of plagiarism, the similarities between the radical new Twenty20 competition leaked yesterday and the Indian Premier League (IPL) are so clear that it seems the ground-breaking tournament has simply been

"The 'chokers' tag attached to South Africa's cricket team since their return from sporting isolation 17 years ago may be due a revision following the appointment of a bit-part England one-day player called Jeremy Snape to their coaching staff,"

"As it stands, if NZC were to withdraw from next year's tour of Zimbabwe for reasons other than security or safety issues, they would be liable for an automatic fine of US$2m, plus all liabilities suffered by the host board (television rights

Scott Styris fired a salvo of harsh text messages at Mark Richardson, a former New Zealand opener turned journalist, because of what the allrounder thought to be a negative article written by Richardson

"There are some captains who remain captains, and there are some who grow into the role of a leader," writes Imran Khan in the Hindustan Times

"Over the years you begin to realise that your life is not in peril every time you walk out to bat against the likes of Donald, Walsh, Ambrose or Malcolm Marshall

In the Observer , Kevin Mitchell writes: "What matters to the ICC is they have been saved from making a judgment call (which they would have fudged by suspending Zimbabwe temporarily because 'they are not good enough'), and England don't lose

What is the point of the ICC

It's something of a shock to the system to be pulling the whites on this week and playing a game that lasts for four days rather than three hours, writes Matthew Hoggard, who describes his Twenty20 Cup experience in the Times .

Cricket South Africa should be applauded for suspending its bilateral agreement with Zimbabwe Cricket, a move that should finally force cricket's administrators to abandon their association with the country, writes Angus Fraser in the Independent

Fuller Pilch, a Victorian cricketing hero who bamboozled opponents with a pioneering style of batting that became known as the “Pilch poke”, is proving as troublesome in death as he was in life, writes Jack Malvern in the Times .

"Had you been travelling near the village of Cranleigh, about 80km south of London, one Sunday earlier this year, you could have followed the signs to the cricket match and made the most extraordinary discovery," writes David Walsh in the

"Winning the first three Tests of a five-match series in India [as England did in 1976-77] remains a unique achievement, incidentally, and here's the thing: it came with the aid of what these days might be called a skeleton support staff, which

"Pietersen's six over long-on, or long-off as it was before he 'switched', was phenomenal

For the last week, my daily routine on a non-match day has been to get up, attend various practice sessions and press conferences scheduled through the day and then come back to the hotel room to file stories, after which it’s too late to do anything

The Indian team landed in Dhaka early this morning and were greeted by dark skies and the omnipresent chance of rain

The pilot’s announcement that we would be landing in Dhaka shortly woke me up