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China outplays Taiwan

The USA’s ABC News reports how China has used the World Cup to score diplomatic points over rivals Taiwan

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Simply marvellous

Fantastic news for fans of the highly irreverent 12th Man CDs – and that includes most of the editorial team – comes with the release this week of the seventh offering – and the first for five years - from Billy Bimingham

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Lefties' success is a right-handed compliment

Everyone has been batting the wrong way around, writes Peter Roebuck in the Sydney Morning Herald , and coaches have been barking up the wrong tree.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

The new discovery of cricket

Boria Mazumdar takes a look at the new brand of cricket coverage on Indian television which is set to transform the nature of global cricket coverage.

25-Feb-2013•Sriram Veera

Field of his own

When Mike Young, Australia's fielding coach, came to Australia to play for the Queensland baseball team, his first taste of Test cricket was met with a kind of bemusement natural for young Americans

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Gandhi and cricket

Cricket might not have affected Gandhi, but Gandhi certainly affected cricket

25-Feb-2013•Sriram Veera

The Ashes can wait

The Ashes can wait..

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Barmy Army beware the Aussie Posse

The Barmy Army have been entertaining supporting England for a number of years, through the dark depression of the nineties and out into the altogether brighter 2000s

25-Feb-2013•Will

A lot in a name

Ramachandra Guha has a look at a few fascinating stories linked to some cricketers' names.

25-Feb-2013•Sriram Veera

Kambli prepares to tie the knot

Vinod Kambli is all set for a new innings, writes Clayton Murzello in Mid-Day , the Mumbai-based newspaper

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

For Darrell Hair read the village vicar

It could have been a scene out of England, Their England ..

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

The King's favourite ground

He might have had a glittering career spanning three decades, during which time he played at some of the world's top cricket grounds, but Sir Viv Richards still has fond memories of hitting sixes towards ambulances watched by NHS staff when he played

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Hair today, reality television star tomorrow

If Darrell Hair may be assured of anything in these difficult hours, it is that smirking, jaded telly executives are even now dreaming up vehicles for him, writes Marina Hyde

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Not so Sobers

This day, 33 years ago, Garry Sobers produced his last Test hundred, an unbeaten 150, to charge West Indies to a massive win

25-Feb-2013•Sriram Veera

When Zaheer Abbas refused to take the field

Zaheer Abbas refused to take the field on the last day during the 1983-84 Bangalore Test

25-Feb-2013•Sriram Veera

'Us' v 'Them'

Writing in Hindustan Times , Pradeep Magazine asks if cricket world in danger of getting torn asunder by a new global order that is increasingly getting polarised in stark shades of black and white?

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Bigotry at silly point

Mukul Kesavan, writing in the Hindustan Times , looks back at the Dean Jones controversy and advocates a policy of zero tolerance.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

United Front

With Monty Panesar and Sajid Mahmood in the current England side and Yorkshire teenager Adil Rashid provoking great excitement, the profile of British Asians in cricket has never been higher

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Chill, it's Mondegar!

The acknowledgements section in John Wright's book John Wright's Indian Summers has a curious mention - Cafe Mondegar, a well-known joint in Mumbai, and one which he frequented often

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Marvellous Monty joins the Singhs of praise

In The Guardian , Frank Keating writes on Monty Panesar and other great sporting Sikhs.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

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