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How cricket saved Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a country with a troubled recent history, and still bears the scars of the decades-long civil war from which it emerged about two years ago

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Insect bites, missing luggage and Boycott's brilliance

The World Cup schedule gives all the teams plenty of time between games to rest and recover but the hoards of journalists covering the tournament have no such luck

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

'A tale of Harare and Bulawayo'

Zimbabwe are a side slowing regaining their footing on the world stage

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Pietersen departure good for England

How far the mighty fall

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Got to be Barmy to be in this army

The Barmy Army, that band of merry men and women that follow the England team around the world, officially came into existence during the Ashes tour of 1994-95

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Analysing the decision review system

The ICC’s Decision Review System has come in for some stick in the 2011 World Cup, particularly for one of the more complicated rules governing its use – the 2.5m rule

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

South Africa look the part of World Cup champions

South Africa have always flattered to deceive at the World Cup, often succumbing because of a school-boy error made under pressure

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

How Hayden found out about his broken record

Matthew Hayden, who held the record for the fastest World Cup hundred before Kevin O’Brien decided it was open season on England’s bowlers, was possibly the last man to hear about it

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Magnanimous England lessens Irish joy

Irish eyes may be smiling after the defeat of England, but writing in the Guardian , Barry Glendenning says the euphoria has been tempered by England’s good-natured acceptance of the result.

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Disbelief and not much else

Bangladesh’s abject surrender in their much-win clash against West Indies has, obviously, come in for some scathing criticism

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Andrew Strauss matches Tendulkar's masterclass

Andrew Strauss called his hundred against India the best one-day innings of his career

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Ticketing fiasco a failure for India, cricket fans

Websites crashing, police baton-charging fans, potentially angry sponsors and a court case claiming that too many complimentary tickets have been given out for reasons that have nothing to do with cricket

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Will you 'watch' the World Cup?

Twenty20 aside, cricket does not readily lend itself to continuous viewing

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

One-day format still India's favourite

The last few years have seen Twenty20 cricket sweep the sport like a tsunami

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

A diet of irrelevant matches and meaningless series

Too much cricket is making it hard to tell the difference between one game and the next, and ruining the appeal of even the sport's biggest events, write Ravi Krishnan and Anushree Chandran in Mint .

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Education differentiates India's southern cricketers

South India, with its Dravidian roots, has its own culture that seperates it from North India

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Cricket's biggest egos - Pietersen and Yuvraj

Kevin Pietersen has never been shy about, well, anything really

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

The godfather of cricket photography hangs up his camera

Patrick Eagar, the ''godfather of cricket photography'', is hanging up his camera after four decades of stalking the boundary ropes looking for that perfect image

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

The worst year of Yuvraj Singh's career

It has been a difficult year for Yuvraj Singh

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Taking cricket to the hills of India

A 500-year old temple, breathtaking views of the Kullu Valley and the Dhauladhar ranges, 1,342 teams and Twenty20 cricket all feature in the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association’s plan to spread the game amidst the hills and valleys of the state,

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