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The IPL is here

It's almost been an entire week since the World Cup ended, and Chuck Culpepper of the National can hardly stand the 'horrid, wretched cricket-lessness of it all'

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

RIP Chesters

Venkat Ananth, on the Yahoo Cricket website , pays tribute to Trevor Chesterfield, the veteran cricket journalist and former first-class umpire, who died at the age of 75 on Wednesday.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Dhoni among the all-time greats

MS Dhoni ranks right up there with the best international captains – think Imran Khan, Mark Taylor, Arjuna Ranatunga – of the last three decades, says Ian Chappell, writing in the Hindustan Times

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Stake through the heart for Ireland

The ICC's decision to restrict the number of teams in the 2015 World Cup to its ten Full Member nations, is a decision that shows no consideration for the good of the game, writes Greg Baum in the Sydney Morning Herald .

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Dhoni is a Type 3 personality

India’s World Cup victory has led to many paeans about MS Dhoni’s leadership skills, as well as examinations of the various traits and characteristics of various members of the team

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

An all-round win

India's World Cup victory was as much an economic success as it was a cricketing one, writes Ed Smith in the Times .

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Bradman or Tendulkar?

Nathan Astle, writing in the New Zealand Herald , says that old debate is bound to spark off once again following Sachin Tendulkar’s stellar performance in the 2011 World Cup.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The end of an era?

We have seen and will see many of the modern-day greats leave the game

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Time to prune overseas players in county cricket

Writing in the Daily Telegraph , Steve James says the time has come for overseas players to be excluded from county cricket, as the plethora of international cricket and the IPL has ensured you just cannot sign the stars any longer.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A team effort

An editorial in the Indian Express states that one of the things that the 2011 World Cup will be remembered for is the hospitality and effort of the three host nations — Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India, which includes the includes hard

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

From World Cup to ICC Invitational

What is fair about denying the team ranked 10th in the world - Ireland - any chance of a spot in a 10-team World Cup asks Dave Tickner, writing in Sporting Life

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

How Srinagar played the semis

Avirook Sen in the Open magazine, relives his experience of watching the World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan in Srinagar.

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

A 28-year wait

In his latest blog , Siddhartha Vaidyanathan explains just why every player in the Indian team dedicated the World Cup victory to Sachin Tendulkar

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

India's turn to dominate cricket?

Oliver Brett wonders in the BBC whether India can be the new world-beaters in cricket, like the West Indians of the 1980s and the Australians over the past two decades

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

The reinvigoration of the one-day game

John Stern looks back at the World Cup in the Wisden Cricketer and says its legacy is the revitalisation of the one-day format, which had received loads of criticism since the rise of the Twenty20 game

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Cricket's future in Canada

An increasing number of Canadians claim heritage from parts of the world where cricket is the most important sport played, Dave Liverman writes on Canada Cricket Online , and therefore cricket's status as a sport in the country is growing

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Dhoni: India's hero of the day

MS Dhoni's form had been scratchy right up till the World Cup final but he was able to put that behind him in the game that mattered the most, writes Peter Roebuck in the Sydney Morning Herald

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

'People should not lose perspective'

In a freewheeling interview with Dinesh Chopra in the Hindustan Times , Gautam Gambhir reveals that he had an inkling he would do well in the World Cup final, believes India's new calm approach to challenges in the key to their success, and urges

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

An innings of technique and humility

Mahela Jayawardene made a century in the World Cup final and James Lawton in the Independent writes that when we look back to that tumultuous day at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, Jayawardene's performance and demeanour will surely dwarf the

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

New Zealand on right track under Wright

What next for New Zealand in the Test arena, asks Andrew Alderson, writing in the New Zealand Herald

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

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