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Don't smash the ball into your own foot

Matthew Hoggard might not be in the frame for England anymore, but as captain of Leicestershire, he has an upfront view of first-class cricket and in his column for the Independent , lays out what he has learned over the last week, including the

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

The sub-plots of T20 Cricket

Twenty20 cricket is often criticised as lacking in tactics and nuance

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

It is the player's choice

Gautam Gambhir’s injury and late exclusion from the ODI team to the Caribbean, a team he was going to captain, has led to much hand wringing over players choosing to play in the IPL at the expense of international cricket

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

A scorer's mentality

Uday Gharat became an official scorer at the Mumbai Cricket Association during the 1990-91 season and since then has recorded over two hundred Indian domestic games, as well as 30 ODIs and 9 Tests

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Was Broad brought back too soon?

Stuart Broad has had a rough last few months

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Kolkata Knight Riders' go-to-man

Iqbal Abdulla has been one of the finds of the 2011 IPL

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Time to press the mute button

Has the IPL taken cricketainment too far

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

What is the purpose of the ICC?

Michael Holding has never been shy about his opinions

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Warne was the fairytale the IPL needed

Shane Warne has finally called time on his professional cricket career with his annoucement that this would be his last year in the IPL

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Cricket, diplomacy and hope

Sher Bano, a 17-year-old Pashtun girl from Pakistan who spent a year as an exchange student in the United States, has become a regular contributor to the New York Times blog, On the Ground , ever since she returned to Peshawar

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Learning from Lasith Malinga

Lasith Malinga has been far and away the best bowler in the 2011 IPL and while his action may not lend itself to imitation, there are still lessons to be learned from his methods, writes Indranil Basu in the Times of India .

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Making music is uppermost on Sreesanth's mind

With the IPL heading into crunch time and India’s tour of the West Indies looming on the horizon, you’d expect India’s cricketers to be focused on, well, cricket

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

One good deed deserves another

There were two acts of sportsmanship in a recent game between Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

A Passage to India

The IPL has given India’s domestic players the chance to strut their stuff on the big stage and several of them have been catapulted into the national side on the back of successful Twenty20 performances since 2008

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Dhoni is a Type 3 personality

India’s World Cup victory has led to many paeans about MS Dhoni’s leadership skills, as well as examinations of the various traits and characteristics of various members of the team

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

The countdown to the 2015 World Cup begins

Apparently, it is never too early to start a marketing campaign

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Trott uses brains, not brawn

Crowds may love the thrill of a six, but it takes more than biffing to build an innings

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

A Japanese scholar at Chepauk

The World Cup’s last league game, between India and West Indies, will have an unusual spectator in the stands

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Zimbabwe's return to Test cricket is premature

Zimbabwe have not played a Test match since September 2005, but are poised to return to the five-day game in August this year

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

WCL Division 2 to kick off April 8

The ICC World Cricket League Division 2 (WCL Div 2) will feature six teams that will play each other once each, with the top two teams qualifying for the final

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