The Buzz

Attendances for county games may continue to be low, but there’s no denying that there are still some die-hard fans

Cricket tours are hectic, with weeks passing by in a blur of venues, hotels and airports

Many have thought it has been the case for years, but Sachin Tendulkar has been turned into a Hindu god by fans.

The European Court has ruled that a tennis racquet is not a terrorist threat, despite an airline deciding it was and throwing a passenger off a flight for the temerity of bringing one on board.

The idea of owning your own cricket club might not cost you as much as the many millions of dollars paid for IPL franchises

  Politics can be tiresome business

  The only moments of relief for the cricket journalists covering the tedious draw in Barbados between England and West Indies were the bathroom breaks

Has the first potshot of the Ashes been fired

Sachin Tendulkar will never be forgotten, not by a generation of Indians and certainly not by cricket

In India, cricket and films are often the quickest way to arrive in life

Less than 24 hours after it rained sixes during the first Twenty20 international in Christchurch, New Zealand unearthed their biggest hitter

Nearly 16 years after his 'ball of the century' to Mike Gatting marked the start of his domination of England, Shane Warne unusually finds himself a little apprehensive going into an Ashes series.

  Cricketers keep lending their names to products all the time but how many have works of art based on their nickname

Mistaking the letter ‘H’ painted in the corner of a cricket field an unlucky pilot landed a helicopter smack in the middle of a domestic cricket game in India

As a captain Sourav Ganguly was never shy of expressing himself

Yorkshire-Derbyshire might not rank as one of cricket’s greatest rivalries, but there is clearly someone at the Sheffield Star (motto “Serving South Yorkshire”) with a chip on their shoulder and no end of cross-border bitterness.

It is not just the USA federal agents who would like to know the whereabouts of Allen Stanford right now

You rarely find the Indian team in any state of anxiety these days, such has been their on-field form, but there was palpable tension when they boarded the bus at their hotel en route to the airport for the flight to New Zealand early on Thursday