If ever a cricketer has been delicious, it has been Afridi

So they beat the old enemy, but did anyone notice in the noise of the football and the tennis?

Often the cricket fan's sympathy lies with the vanquished, not the victor

The England team full of players from other countries? Well, knock us down with a feather

Breathes there a fan with soul so dead who hasn't taken joy from cricket controversies?

Some bowlers are accused of involvement in irregularities; for others there's no such excuse. And who knew bookies watched county cricket?

There's plenty of over-the-top excess in the IPL, but there's a fair bit to like as well

The thrill of watching Brett Lee at the top of his run-up in a Test match was something else

It's good to see a West Indian at the helm of this once-great side

He's a crowd pleaser, an effortless charmer, a top-drawer spinner and better than a lower-order biffer. If the IPL doesn't want Swann, it's their loss, really

The former England captain is, somewhat surprisingly, good on radio: funny, articulate, shrewd and insightful

Players need to travel to play, but do they need to play so frequently?

There's something about the passion Sachin inspires that makes cricket worth it

England's newest South African-born batting star a traitor? Oh the humanity!

What if the football behemoth took to cricket? It might be the only way England could produce a winner in Champions League Twenty20

Australia's clean-cut, ever-smiling pack of current cricketers makes you long for the scowling grouches of old

Day-nighters in autumn? English cricket has crossed a certain line with this one

This tournament has been a fine evangelical exercise for the women's game

In which Shahid Afridi rediscovers his old self

South Africa should be crowd favourites but it seems their fate to be boring as England - only better