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Cabin fever or siege mentality?

Cabin fever or siege mentality?

With the one-day series in Pakistan and the tour of India to follow, England must quickly learn to open their minds to South Asia, otherwise this winter will prove to be as fruitless as the summer was fruitful, says Kamran Abbasi

09-Dec-2005•Kamran Abbasi

The start of a new era

The start of a new era

Deb K Das reports that Major League Cricket has proved a point and is here to stay

07-Dec-2005•Deb K Das

The googly men from Pakistan

The googly men from Pakistan

Sriram Veera traces the rebirth of the googly in Pakistan

05-Dec-2005•Sriram Veera

Bollywood, fridge freezers and Pizza Hut

Bollywood, fridge freezers and Pizza Hut

Charlotte Edwards' exclusive tour diary

Desperate New Zealand take on indifferent Australia

Desperate New Zealand take on indifferent Australia

Things could hardly be brighter for New Zealand as they approach the pivotal Chappell-Hadlee series

02-Dec-2005•Dylan Cleaver

Ranatunga warns against writing off Sri Lanka

Ranatunga warns against writing off Sri Lanka

I must stress that India would count out Sri Lanka at its own peril

01-Dec-2005•Arjuna Ranatunga

Of misguided celebrations and misplaced priorities

Of misguided celebrations and misplaced priorities

Don't use Brian Lara's latest record-breaking achievement as just another excuse for a lavish homecoming

30-Nov-2005•Fazeer Mohammed

Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful

Vaneisa Baksh reviews West Indies' performances against Australia and says there is some cause for optimism ...although there is still a long way to go

Fitting the mantle perfectly

Fitting the mantle perfectly

As Pakistani fans celebrate Inzamam's ascent to the pantheon, they are also scanning from horizon to horizon but finding no successor

28-Nov-2005•Saad Shafqat

A meeting with Sonia Gandhi

A meeting with Sonia Gandhi

Charlotte Edwards' exclusive tour diary

Much ado about something

Much ado about something

The Indian board has been needlessly petty and typically incompetent. In the response of the English media there has been the conceited assumption that they're being chucked into the toilet bowl

24-Nov-2005•Rahul Bhattacharya

West Indies bid to avoid whitewash

West Indies bid to avoid whitewash

It has become habitual that the West Indies enter the last Test of a series with the primary, if not sole, aim of averting a whitewash

24-Nov-2005•Tony Cozier

An expected move, but a bold one

An expected move, but a bold one

As coronations go, this one had a sense of inevitability

22-Nov-2005•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Velvet and iron

Velvet and iron

Rahul Dravid's captaincy credentials and cricketing nous were never better illustrated than on the third day of the Mumbai Test against Australia last November

22-Nov-2005•Dileep Premachandran

Why does the ICC dither on Zimbabwe?

Why does the ICC dither on Zimbabwe?

Henry Olonga finds it uncanny how what is happening in Zimbabwe cricket so closely mirrors what is happening in the political arena there

22-Nov-2005•Henry Olonga

The magic returns, Samba style

The magic returns, Samba style

Reaching the pinnacle of international cricket takes discipline but it cannot be achieved without risk and it should be achieved with style. Pakistan have shown they have it in them to do that

21-Nov-2005•Kamran Abbasi

Herds, hooting and high spirits

Herds, hooting and high spirits

Charlotte Edwards' exclusive tour diary

'I am now focused on the future'

'I am now focused on the future'

'I don`t look at myself as a Lance Klusener, but to be mentioned in the same breath is an honour,' says Justin Kemp

19-Nov-2005•Nagraj Gollapudi

In the name of God, go

In the name of God, go

Peter Roebuck on why those running cricket in Zimbabwe have got to be swept aside

18-Nov-2005•Peter Roebuck

Winning the inner game

Winning the inner game

Cricket is two games. There is an outer or public game and an inner or private game

16-Nov-2005•Rudi Webster

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