Lawrence Booth

I’ve covered cricket tours before, but nothing as hectic and, frankly, surreal as this

But today, if Shane Warne is good enough to pick him for the Royals against Kolkata Knight Riders in sweltering Jaipur, our numbers will balloon by one: step forward Dimitri Mascarenhas

“We’ve got the momentum,” says a captain, moments before losing the toss on a flat one and conceding 350 on the first day

Since everyone has been up in arms about The Slap (and it’s only a matter of time before the words are followed by a little ™ and we can all buy the DVD), it’s tempting to wonder exactly whether many losers have actually emerged from yesterday’s

One of the many familiar grouses about the county game is the way in which English players can generally rely on an overseas team-mate to dig them out of yet another hole

Harbhajan Singh’s alleged slapping of Sreesanth – or push, or comment, or tickle, or whatever it was that reduced Sreesanth to tears in Mohali last night – is all the more bizarre for occurring between players who, despite recent on-field tensions,

Do cheerleaders add glamour to the game

This is my ninth day in India, so I thought it was time to take stock and pass on a few things I’ve learned …

The cricket uses the celebs to feel good about itself; the celebs use the cricket to stay in the headlines

And there I was thinking India’s initial reluctance to embrace Twenty20 was because the format offered fewer ad breaks than the 50-over game

Predictions seem futile, but underlying it all is the thought that a successful tournament here could change the structure of the English game for good

'Twas a bond that brooked neither stats nor sense

The advent of covered pitches had significant effects on spinners, and served to make wickets all over the world uniform

A former bludgeoner, two former England keepers, a stocky allrounder, a fingerspinner, and a future KP, in our awards for the season

No 10 in our series of Kevin Pietersen's top ten innings