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History in Bengal, farce in Delhi

A round-up of second round of the Ranji Trophy, 2006-07

06-Dec-2006•Sriram Veera

Sonn critical of Pakistan board's 'inconsistency'

Percy Sonn, the ICC president, has criticised the Pakistan Cricket Board over inconsistency in handling the judgement involving Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif

06-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

Divergence in doping policies will not work

How can cricket operate with such a wide divergence in the doping policies of a national board and the body that runs cricket?

06-Dec-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Tiny, historic and symbolic

Peter English visits the South Australia Museum

05-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

How Pietersen dominated Warne

How Kevin Pietersen dominated Shane Warne on the opening day at Adelaide

01-Dec-2006•S Rajesh

Pietersen outwits the master

Gone were the sociable smiles, friendly pats on the back and appreciative nods of each other's vast abilities. Kevin Pietersen and Shane Warne were friends-turned-foes at Adelaide today and, most intriguingly of all as far as this series is concerned, Wa

01-Dec-2006•Will Luke

Cracks beneath the surface

It's time the Indian cricket board spent less time counting its millions and more on making pitches like Mohali

30-Nov-2006•Sambit Bal

Sehwag should follow his basic instinct

Sehwag's troubles fly at him from all directions but his linear thinking and ability to play on the fly could see him through

28-Nov-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Dada & deja-vu and other Ranji stories

Ranji Round 1: Cricinfo looks at the highs and lows, the characters and controversies

27-Nov-2006•Sriram Veera

Rusty England hint at cricket's corrosive future

We saw it with the bowlers yesterday, the batsmen today. England's already forlorn-looking team are undercooked and ill-prepared. They haven't helped their cause, of course, but neither has the fixtures list which permitted just two warm-up games

24-Nov-2006•Will Luke

India will miss Laxman and Ganguly

As the series goes on, I suspect the Indians are going to more and more miss Laxman and Ganguly, says former South African great Allan Donald

24-Nov-2006•Allan Donald

Everything is illuminated

The few spectators who came down today didn't know it, but they actually had a choice of two games to watch at the Multan Cricket Stadium

21-Nov-2006•Osman Samiuddin in Multan

Speed trial

Down South Africa way there's only ever been one kind of bowling, and it's not the sort Indian batsmen have traditionally fancied. Telford Vice looks ahead to India's big tour of the season

18-Nov-2006•Telford Vice

Ashes to Ashes, Brisbane to Bahrain

England have won the Ashes. They've beaten Australia - whupped might be more descriptive - by 131 runs and were gifted 80 extras in wides. Fantasy? Sort of. Forget Brisbane: this was Bahrain

13-Nov-2006•Will Luke

Bookmarking eras

07-Nov-2006•Suresh Menon

The politics of colour

If Loots Bosman's skin wasn't a golden brown colour, his appearance in the middle on Thursday afternoon would not have raised any eyebrows

02-Nov-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Jaipur

The wings, they have been clipped

The sight of Shoaib spreading his wings in celebration of a kill will become the stuff of legend, a DVD classic, a spook story that mothers will tell their would-be superstar children

02-Nov-2006•Kamran Abbasi

Catching the shortbus

31-Oct-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

A risk worth taking

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan weighs Wasim Jaffer's surprise selection for the one-day squad

30-Oct-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

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