Cricinfo can reveal that the violence that followed the disputed presidential elections and which cost almost 500 people their lives has caused a number of cricket tours to Kenya to be scrapped

Why is cricket the only major sport in the world where some people demand that players do the umpires' jobs for them?

South Africa gradually turned the screw on the third day at Newlands, building a telling first-innings lead of 78 and then chipping away at West Indies top order in the evening sunshine

From hackle-raising autobiographies to exhaustive histories - 2007 offered a mixed bag of cricket books. Cricinfo asked its in-house editors, associates and a selection of the great and good for their picks of the year

Life beyond the Test world: our review of the Associate nations in 2007

A brief history of matches between Zimbabwe and Pakistan by Martin Williamson

Well-produced, pocket-friendly reprints of a couple of 1920s Wisdens

Martin Williamson looks at how the ICC fared in 2007

Martin Williamson looks at how Kenya fared in 2007

Martin Williamson looks at how Bermuda fared in 2007

IOC recognition is only the first step on cricket's long road to appearing in the Olympics

There's a certain double irony about the USA blocking Cuba from taking part in the Stanford 20/20

Stump mics, prefab pitches and, er, pink uniforms. We look at eleven legacies of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket

A dummy's guide to Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket

They said what? Quotes from the two-year existence of World Series Cricket

It's been a rare good week for Zimbabwe cricket with their victory over West Indies in the opening ODI at Harare, but off the field things are not so rosy

This weekend's stakeholders' meeting in Nairobi threatens to be overshadowed by the ongoing row between the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association and Cricket Kenya which has rumbled on for months

The first day of Kerry Packer's brave new world

Eleven politicians who would have preferred to have been watching cricket instead

Cricketers are renowned for practical jokes and winding up colleagues, but in August 1933 Essex's Peter Smith was the victim of something that bordered on cruel