The Long Handle

And the astounding escapology act by Defeat

It’s pretty out in Dominica, but on the ground it’s all a shambles

He may not be English but by being self-conscious and insecure, he puts his adopted countrymen at ease

Advertisers, cricket boards and commentators would do well to be advised that cricket watchers are not creatures with the attention spans of goldfish hooked on caffeine

Why we love the Bish and why Antigua has returned to its batsman-hating days of old

When you have been to the very gates of sanity and gazed at what lies beyond, there’s only one thing that can help soothe your frayed nerves again

Can’t figure out how to calculate net run rates for the life of you

There were slogs that connected, sixes that flew and dives that actually saved runs

We’ll have none of that whingeing, you hear Mr Collingwood?

The World Twenty20 begins with some odd cricket

  The post-IPL landscape is strewn with bleary-eyed and confused souls, people such as you and me, fellow cricket tragics, who must somehow soldier on in a world where intervals of time are not sponsored and big beige balloons go

The financial controversy in the IPL has meant viewers are denied their daily dose of the Modi and instead get to see more of the blimp

The Super Kings-Punjab game had many and varied delights, not least the return of the Butcher of Jharkhand

The players from Chennai and Delhi could teach us all a few things about good behaviour

You’re a useless waste of space and now you can pay for the privilege of having a former India captain tell you so

The Rajasthan government may have banned the dancing girls but Andrew Hughes has a plan

Collingwood, Gambhir, Kallis – the Delhi-Bangalore game was short on flamboyance

Even Hitchcock couldn't have inflicted such psychological torment on his audience as the Kings XI did in their match against Bangalore

The IPL commentators can't get enough of the moon and the bag of hot air that hangs above the stadium

They have the other IPL requirements: gaudy shirts, batsmen, cheerleaders, and a drummer