The Heavy Ball

Quelle horreur

What do you get when you cross SAW with the glorious game?

25-Feb-2010•Jarrod Kimber

It's all Bangladesh's fault

It's criminal for a team so talented to underperform the way they do, and you can't blame the universe from going out of whack when they inevitably do

24-Feb-2010•Andrew Fernando

The Absence Premier League, and Afridi's cunning plan

The ICL tries to make a valiant comeback, and Pakistan's talisman discovers the secret of eternal youth

23-Feb-2010•Anand Ramachandran

Balls: a brief history

First came hollow plastic, then hollow rubber, then PVC and cork: a look at the evolution of the cricket ball, via exhilarating chemical vapours and blows to the goolies

16-Feb-2010•Sidin Vadukut

How to build a world-conquering cricket franchise

It starts with getting a name that doesn't sound anything like an IPL team. Sort of

14-Feb-2010•Alex Bowden

The immoveable Mr Butt

There is only one way to oust the Pakistan board president. Catch him napping

12-Feb-2010•Imran Yusuf

Misunderstood hookers, and an all-new IPL auction

Jacques Kallis and Sunny G star in a most unfortunate mix-up; and the triumph of the human element

11-Feb-2010•Anand Ramachandran

Who wants to be the new Ottis?

Replacing toys in prams, wielding a pair of scissors, being suitably named - there's a lot you need to do if you're going to be a crucial member of a top cricket team's support staff

05-Feb-2010•Alex Bowden

No. 1 is for wimps

The so-called top spot is for easybeats. If you're a team of any worth, you're going to be looking out for No. 3 and lower

29-Jan-2010•Alex Bowden

Let's give mediocrity its due

It's time the ICC organised tournaments where players like Sanjay Bangar, Matthew Bell and Owais Shah can compete without the fear of being totally outplayed

28-Jan-2010•Anand Ramachandran

Shockingly strange Sri Lankans

Is there anything sane and normal about a team full of wannabe openers? No, there isn't

27-Jan-2010•Andrew Fernando

Ain't nobody rock a party like Pakistan can

Spurned by the big, bad IPL? No need to hang up your dancing shoes just yet

25-Jan-2010•Imran Yusuf

I blame Kumble and Srinath

An impossible tail-end partnership from over a decade ago, and how it made an eternal optimist of one Indian fan

22-Jan-2010•Sidin Vadukut

The great Indian machismo crisis

Why aren't more Indian cricketers hairy, uncouth, beer-drinking, potty-mouthed swine?

18-Jan-2010•Krish Ashok

The importance of being unwatchable

If you can't sit through plod-fests, three-hour fifties and a Mark Richardson innings, what sort of sorry excuse for a cricket fan are you?

17-Jan-2010•Alex Bowden

The Ranji Trophy is the new ICL

The IPL is under threat from India's premier domestic tournament and the BCCI won't stand for such nonsense

15-Jan-2010•Anand Ramachandran

Stop the madness

India v Sri Lanka? Lord have mercy

13-Jan-2010•Sidharth Monga

The Akmals: a TV series

Are events involving two Pakistani siblings Down Under putting you in mind of an 80s American sitcom? You're not the only one

13-Jan-2010•Jarrod Kimber

Beware the finger spinner

They used to be diversions, brought on to give everyone else a breather, but now they're in the thick of it and taking wickets

11-Jan-2010•Alex Bowden

The struggle to save Twenty20

The terrible threat to the shortest form of the game. And why merit is thankfully being sidelined as a criterion for qualification

08-Jan-2010•Anand Ramachandran

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