Sunday's match between England and India was good enough to convert all but the most curmudgeonly of cricket's followers

In only one respect was England's victory over Pakistan fortunate and that was that England came up against the one team who had looked even rustier than themselves in the warm-up games, writes Mike Atherton in the Times

The ICL has lost a huge number of players after the BCCI announced it's decision to award amnesty to those who has signed up with the league

The ICC will meet to discuss the Future Tours Programme next week and serious noises are being made that the top four want to play each other more often, which means the rest could be sidelined in the new programme, writes Dylan Cleaver in the

In the countdown to the Ashes, former England captain Mike Brearley looks back at the 1981 series without some element of rosy tint to the glasses

English cricket has plumbed some pretty low depths in its time but defeat by Pakistan would surely set a new level of ignominy that may not be beaten until the Afghans, or Eskimos, visit Lord’s, writes Simon Wilde in Sunday Times

The Dutch victory, which came as England’s fielding completely disintegrated under pressure, was one of the biggest upsets in one-day cricketing history, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

Tomorrow at Lord's Paul Collingwood will lead England into the first match of the World Twenty20, a second coming for him in the role and one regained perhaps reluctantly and probably by default

The IPL has a set a benchmark for entertaining cricket and according to Amrit Mathur in the Hindustan Times , the World Twenty20 is unlikely to match its buzz and hype.

The recent predecessors to the World Twenty20 in England were the World Cup in 1999 and the Champions Trophy in 2004 - both damp squibs.There is genuine reason to believe that this time the organisers will get it right and that they will produce a

The Pakistan board unnecessarily revealed the nature of Shoaib Akhtar's injury that forced him out of the World Twenty20 but given long‑standing acrimony that exists between Shoaib and the PCB, one imagines the only real dilemma the blazers faced

Before the Ashes can begin, there is the major task of getting the England squad kitted and fitted in the Hugo Boss suits

Defending champions India seem to be favourites for the World Twenty20 in England and Harsha Bhogle feels though the tag can be a poisoned chalice, India do seem to possess the right kind of players

For pre-game and mid-innings entertainment at the World Twenty20 how about some cricket pop

Today marks the beginning of the Twenty20 boom in England, starting with the domestic Twenty20 Cup and then the World Twenty20 in June

Australia haven’t had a match-winning spinner since Shane Warne hung up his boots after the last Ashes series and the situation is serious enough to warrant calling a ‘spin summit’ next month to discuss the issue

However great the 2005 Ashes may have been, the cricket world four years later is transformed not by Pietersen and Flintoff's heroics, but by Twenty20 and the Indian Premier League, writes Owen Slot in the Times .

Brazil has kept alive its chances of winning the South American Championships on home turf by defeating Peru by 10 wickets in Sao Paulo on Saturday

What's with MS Dhoni

Descendants of a hero in Nelson's navy, who established one of cricket's most unlikely outposts on the island of Vis, are returning to the remote Adriatic island to take part in an historic cricket match