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Chastened England progress in style

England are now guaranteed their slot in the Super Eights, thanks to a net run-rate that will keep them afloat whatever the result of Tuesday's clash between Netherlands and Pakistan

07-Jun-2009•Andrew Miller at The Oval

Younis perplexed at shoddy Pakistan display

Pakistan's aura of unpredictability, something that made watching them so fascinating, has come to an end

07-Jun-2009•Nagraj Gollapudi at The Oval

Agricultural, impure, glorious

That Netherlands conquered a complacent England was not simply arrogance on the part of their hosts, but the benefits of relying on the basics

06-Jun-2009•Will Luke

Dutch courage spares organisers' blushes

Nagraj Gollapudi watches Netherlands' shock win paper over what was a damp squib of an opening day in the ICC World Twenty20

05-Jun-2009•Nagraj Gollapudi at Lord's

Planning, the Windies way

Chris Gayle's stated lack of interest in the traditional form of the game has obviously been adopted as the team mantra

25-May-2009•Fazeer Mohammed

Switching colours, switching hits

He's got all the shots and then some, and now he's got a bigger, better platform to showcase them on

21-May-2009•Andrew McGlashan

The value of the hard yards

Sometimes runs and wickets can come a little too easily. It has been the occasional passages of play that have pushed England which have had the most value

17-May-2009•Andrew McGlashan at Chester-le-Street

Harker hits out at Test bidding system

As the rain fell on a miserable second day at Chester-le-Street it provided an apt backdrop to a game that has reignited the debate about Test cricket's future. Even if the sun had shone, it's unlikely the ground would have been even half full with punter

15-May-2009•Andrew McGlashan at Chester-le-Street

A bore revisited

The pitch was as bare as any in the preceding matches in the tropical Caribbean and just as heartbreaking for the bowlers

15-May-2009•Tony Cozier at Chester-le-Street

Bopara credits Gooch for Test success

Chris Gayle is not enthralled by Test cricket, but for Ravi Bopara it holds a special place - and that's coming from a player who can also be assured of making a fortune in the Twenty20 game

14-May-2009•Andrew McGlashan at Chester-le-Street

Portrait of the workman as artist

To one teenager at least, Fraser made relentless application and sweaty doggedness glamorous. Almost

11-May-2009•Andrew Miller

Shades of Hussain as Bopara arrives

The following scenario may sound familiar. England are at a low ebb after a desperate winter campaign, and a new coach decides it's time to take a punt with one of the most problematic positions in the side

06-May-2009•Andrew Miller at Lord's

Bopara creates a momentum of his own

The momentum that carried Ravi Bopara to his second Test century was entirely unconnected to the fortunes (or lack thereof) of the England team - which is precisely why he was called into the side in the first place

06-May-2009•Andrew Miller at Lord's

Walsh hopeful for new generation

When Courtney Walsh walked off The Oval arm-in-arm with his fellow fast-bowling destroyer Curtly Ambrose in 2000, West Indies had all but relinquished their long hold on the Wisden Trophy

06-May-2009•Andrew McGlashan

Expect a run-fest at draw-prone Lord's

Stats preview to the first Test between England and West Indies at Lord's

05-May-2009•S Rajesh

MCC at heart of Afghanistan's future

A former officer in the Royal Green Jackets, Matthew Fleming - who played 11 ODIs for England - will open a cricket camp in Afghanistan, the newest of the ICC's one-day international countries

29-Apr-2009•Will Luke

The art of Vaughan

The former England captain's new project involves hitting a paint-coated ball onto canvas

24-Apr-2009•Andrew Miller

Disappointment on the collision course

As with the Kolkata captaincy issue, the showdown between England's two big beasts, Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen, did not quite live up to its billing

20-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

Pietersen makes the perfect start

Twenty20 captaincy feels like a lottery at times but pretty much everything Kevin Pietersen did came off. He may as well just ride the wave

18-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

A man who will lead by example

Andy Flower is widely expected to be unveiled this week as England's new full-time director of cricket, having overseen the team's fortunes in an interim capacity during the recent tour of the West Indies

14-Apr-2009

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