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Give us box-set Test cricket, please

Fewer series may help give the format a more meaningful narrative and make it as immersive an experience as the IPL season just past

03-Jun-2016•Jon Hotten

Thank God it's not the Ashes

A year without England v Australia contests makes for a nice change of pace

19-May-2016•Liam Cromar

How do we devise a Test championship that satisfies everyone?

In the past, bilateral self-interest has worked against plans for a Test championship. The challenge for the ICC is to find a model that suits all concerned

27-Mar-2016•Russell Degnan

Weddings stop play

Why was Uttar Pradesh forced to shift the venue of their Ranji Trophy match against Baroda?

20-Nov-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Make Pakistan's home Tests day-night affairs

Instead of having their exiled team play in empty, echoing stadiums, the PCB must look to innovate in the UAE

19-Oct-2015•Kamran Abbasi

The plight of the English spin bowler

As England wait on the fitness of Zafar Ansari ahead of the tour of the UAE, the Middlesex spinner, Ollie Rayner, explains why alternatives are thin on the ground

22-Sep-2015•Ollie Rayner

What West Indies can learn from New Zealand

The teams match up in terms of talent. The key area of difference, obviously, is player-board relations

19-Jan-2015•Colin Benjamin

What the Indian calendar is doing to its bowlers

R Ashwin and Ishant Sharma's lack of first-class experience and consequent decline in skills speak volumes about the BCCI's skewed priorities

12-Sep-2014•Kartikeya Date

Testing times for Sri Lanka

Given Sri Lanka's long struggle to attain Test status, the demotion of the five-day format to an inconvenient sideshow is particularly galling

01-Jun-2014•Janaka Malwatta

Adopted-home advantage for CSK and Royals?

A look at how Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings might be impacted by not having any games at their primary home venues

13-May-2014•Bishen Jeswant

Rejigged county schedule to England's rescue?

Mike Selvey, in the Guardian believes the change in structure of the English county season will help in preparing the national side for the summer ahead.

05-Apr-2014

Double headers are the future, but they stink

Playing women's matches before men's is good in principle, but they end up reducing the women's game to a sideshow

10-Feb-2014•Raf Nicholson

Time to regionalise county cricket?

A six-team tournament above the Championship might strengthen the supply line for the England team

19-Jan-2014•Scott Oliver

A golden age of cricketing travel sickness

In which we explore the magical world of whitewashes and why teams seem to be so rubbish at touring these days

14-Jan-2014•Andy Zaltzman

Why long Ashes tours are hurting Test cricket

England's and Australia's established schedules of a five-Test series every other year makes it hard for other teams to create rivalries

06-Dec-2013•Kartikeya Date

Done in by darkness

New Zealand search for light but all they get is rain

20-Nov-2013•Andrew Hughes

Australia need to be Hussified

The Sheffield Shield needs to toughen up and national players must feature in it for at least two months before the Test season

05-Oct-2013•Matt Cleary

South Africa, India and a troubled tour

Harsha Bhogle analyses the current predicament of the India-South Africa series and suggests that cricket boards around the world must create a financial system independent of India to ensure their economic stability

23-Sep-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Stop the treadmill, I want to get off

There's never any time to enjoy the triumphs because you need to look ahead to the next game

23-Sep-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Fifty overs suck

Especially when they are offered up as an afterthought. Why not give the 25-over two-innings format a shot?

21-Sep-2013•Matt Cleary

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