Jamie Alter

A wicketkeeper with exceptional batting skills is a super allrounder who saves a place in the XI and Adam Gilchrist is the foremost example, writes S Dinakar in the weekly magazine Sportstar

Dilawar Hussain, of Blackburn, is an angry man

Tunde Akinleye The Iris Smart Technologies CCC Lagos League 2008-09 in Nigeria has finally drawn to a close with some interesting matches at the end

Tony Munro

The second edition of the IPL is going on merrily in South Africa, despite a few rain disturbances and a mysterious blogger threatening to bring down one of the eight teams

A win in New Zealand is laudable, writes Rohit Mahajan in Outlook , but plain tracks, plainer opposition call for temperance

Day two: The second day of Fiji's Easter tournament being played at several venues in the national capital, Suva, threw up some big hitting at the main ground, Albert Park, a thrilling finish at Suva Grammar and a comfortable victory for Suva in

After 120 years a woman is named in Wisden's cricketers of the year – heralding a new era for the women's game

Mini Kindra, writing in Outlook , feels the second edition of the IPL won't be the same despite the tournament organiser's hopes to seduce crowds with Bollywood allure

Watching the media conference celebrating the 'Catch The Spirit' campaign of the ICC, Andrew Alderson believes international cricket needs an injection of realism to find better solutions to problems currently riddling the sport

Cricketers' lunch at Eden Park this week included meat, salad, bread, fruit - and a bowl of dhal

India's three-Test contest in New Zealand will determine just how far this Indian team has progressed over the past two years, writes Dileep Premachandran in his Guardian blog

Darren Pattinson’s journey over the past year has gone from England Test bowler to Victorian club player

Mihir Bose, the BBC's sports editor, writes in his blog that the ICC never has, and never will, have the powers to come up with a solution, let alone impose it

Peter Roebuck feels Brett Lee will be hard pressed to regain his place in the Australian Test team

WV Raman writes in his column for Sportstar that the decline in the quality of pitches can contribute to the decline of cricket

Ricky Ponting has plenty of reasons to set his sights high in defence of the Ashes, believes the Sunday Times' Simon Wilde

Former Indian captain Bishan Bedi is typically blunt in his criticism of the IPL, and the BCCI's insistence on holding the Twenty20 event at the same time as the general elections in India