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Australia must be patient with rotation

I will try to make reasoned arguments about why Inverarity is right about the 'informed player management' policy implemented by Cricket Australia

25-Feb-2013•Tapan Doshi

A hero in a dystopian wasteland

Just as Mad Max struck his own path through the Australian outback, Graham Thorpe was a bastion of consistency in the quagmire of batting collapses

25-Feb-2013•Peter Miller

Women's cricket goes global

The current World Cup in India has seen plenty of promising performances, and even more compelling characters, emerge from the less established nations

25-Feb-2013•Jack Sheldon

Chanderpaul Junior ready to take centrestage

It is not uncommon to see sons and daughters unable to live up to the 'hype' of their parents' great successes because, quite frankly, the bar has been set impossibly high

25-Feb-2013•Roger Sawh

The 25-thousand-dollar wave

The IPL auction unabashedly displays cricket's new-found financial muscle. As one owner put it: "the money doesn't matter" - to these people price is merely a figure, not an obstacle

25-Feb-2013•Freddie Wilde

A quieter and purer game

First let me just say that there is something about watching tall, lanky, lithe women, with flowing hair held back by headbands, display aggression - makes for compelling viewing

25-Feb-2013•Vidya Hariharan

Franchises and future stars

Cricketers runs, wickets and catches are determined by their own talent, for sure, but they are typically also the result of a hidden multi-year investment by a cricket club, board, or association that was never guaranteed to bear fruit

25-Feb-2013•Aashish Pattani

The Women's World Cup deserves better

Preparations for the tenth Women's Cricket World Cup in India have descended into a farce, following the BCCI's decision to make late changes to the schedule

25-Feb-2013•Jack Sheldon

The Caribbean Ashes

There's one rivalry within the Caribbean nexus that is big and is only getting bigger - Guyana v Trinidad (or Trinidad v Guyana, depending on your allegiances)

25-Feb-2013•Roger Sawh

Big Bash League: boon or bane?

People who praise the BBL, how exactly are they quantifying their eulogy? Is it fun? Yes. Is it exciting? Debatable. Is the cricket of a high standard? Perhaps. Is it benefitting Australian cricket? Certainly not

25-Feb-2013•Freddie Wilde

England's limited-overs progress report

Issues facing England's short-format cricket include too much differentiating between ODI and T20 players and the below-par seam attack

25-Feb-2013•Owen Edwards

In defence of home advantage

Conditions around the world vary, and pitches are prepared to suit the home team on a regular basis. But there's nothing wrong with that as the game would lose its greatest challenges if pitches are homogenised

25-Feb-2013•Douglas Sloan

Tendulkar: I hate him like I love him

For a generation that believed success in life was directly linked to an engineering-college berth (or a medical-school berth), Tendulkar was an antithesis

25-Feb-2013•Suman Kumar

The stories of Test cricket

Test cricket, at the heart of the game, is about narratives. We who love this form of the game tend to romanticise it, and this leads to incredible stories and epic tales

25-Feb-2013•Alex Braae

A story about Sachin

It will be one of sports great tragedies if it gets to the stage where Tendulkar's attempted preservation of what he has left, is only acting as detriment to his legacy

25-Feb-2013•Freddie Wilde

The curious case of Ravindra Jadeja

Jadeja has been the one thing worse than a failure - he has been India's favourite scapegoat

25-Feb-2013•Ayush Kumar

How to build a cricketing superpower

Cricketing supremacy will be enjoyed by a nation that has strengths in the following four areas: (i) Playing conditions; (ii) Demand conditions; (iii) Governance conditions; and (iv) Ecosystem conditions

25-Feb-2013•Samir Shrivastava

Cricket and the art of memory

To anyone who has been following cricket, numbers conjure and evoke strange feelings, morphing into characters. A 158 suddenly brings Brendon McCullum to mind

25-Feb-2013•Zeeshan Mahmud

The science of batsmanship

How batting has progressed from the times of CB Fry to modern-day power-hitters like Chris Gayle

25-Feb-2013•MV Swaroop

Save Basin Reserve for cricket

The New Zealand government, led by Prime Minister John Key, has set out on a massive road-building programme, part of which involves building a new motorway past Basin Reserve

25-Feb-2013•Tim Jones

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