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Every cricket team needs a dressing-room pest

In a time of pandemics, lockdowns and bio-secure bubbles, the team needs a character like Doug Walters to bring levity and ease tensions

05-Jul-2020•Ian Chappell

The racism I have seen in cricket

During my playing and broadcasting career, I saw the toxic effect prejudice and ignorance could have on people and the game

21-Jun-2020•Ian Chappell

Why cricket boards should be more liberal with archival footage

Those putting archive footage out there, like Rob Moody, are doing the game more good than they are doing the boards putative harm

19-Jun-2020•Sidharth Monga

It's time we South Asians understood that colourism is racism

We need to unlearn our toxic attitudes towards light and dark skin, and perhaps sport can lead the way

11-Jun-2020•Sambit Bal

Who will be India's spinner for the Tests in Australia later this year?

R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja or Kuldeep Yadav - who can take on the combined might of Steven Smith, David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne?

07-Jun-2020•Ian Chappell

There is a simple alternative to using saliva on the ball

Cricket is poorer without the art of swing, and it's worth the experiment to preserve it, in times of Covid-19 and beyond

28-May-2020•Mark Nicholas

If cricket were to end tomorrow, at least we'll have this game

Did Lord's 2019 go past Edgbaston 1999? Felt that way

15-Jul-2019•Sambit Bal

What happens in a batting collapse

The mood inside the dressing room turns sour, and batsmen forget to play the way they normally do. It doesn't have to be like that

09-Nov-2015•Iain O'Brien

Advantage batsmen, game to bowlers

In a tournament that gave the appearance of being dominated by the bat, the ball had the last word and it was Australia's attack that provided a degree of redemption

30-Mar-2015•Sambit Bal

How to make a ten-team World Cup work

There are ways of making the Associates an integral part of the tournament while still keeping the event competitive and lucrative

17-Mar-2015•Sambit Bal

Wahab Riaz and the tale of the Pakistani bouncer

In the high art of Pakistani fast bowling, where the short ball is mostly used as a warning, Wahab's uncomplicated, extreme pace is an indulgence that stands out

11-Mar-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Letter to de Villiers

South Africa's captain needs to single out his players for attention and get them firing individually and as a team

25-Feb-2015•Martin Crowe

India get their groove back

The long winless Australian summer might just have given those watching the wrong impression

23-Feb-2015•Sambit Bal

How much can a captain influence short-term performance?

Modern captains have less power than ever, yet they are still held overwhelmingly accountable for decisions and tactics arrived at by backroom consensus

16-Feb-2015•Ed Smith

My heart says New Zealand, head South Africa

How the top eight teams stack up ahead of the World Cup, plus predictions for the knockouts

29-Jan-2015•Martin Crowe

A wake-up call for a cliquey sport

Ireland have proudly carried the associates' standard for two World Cups in succession. They're not asking for free lunches, just for a fair chance

02-Mar-2011•Dileep Premachandran

The People's World Cup

To no other city, no other country, no other people, would this World Cup have meant more. And there could have been no better place for this World Cup to begin its journey

17-Feb-2011•Sambit Bal at the Bangabandhu Stadium

All emotion, no logic

Why the PCB's move to press charges against the ICC for the loss of the World Cup is misguided

11-May-2009•Osman Samiuddin

Bowl it one last time, Glenn

To watch the chuntering maestro Glenn McGrath at work was to see an entire era of wicket-to-wicket back-of-length menace flash before the eyes

26-Apr-2007•Rahul Bhattacharya in St Lucia

Thanks Bob, you did make a difference

In time, it will become clear that he had done enough with Pakistan, with South Africa, with Warwickshire, with the ICC and with the game

18-Mar-2007•Osman Samiuddin

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