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India's new Mr Cricket looking to bottom line

Anybody who doubts India is one of the most nakedly capitalist societies in the world should have watched Lalit Modi, the new power-broker in Indian cricket, at work yesterday

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Beaten, but what a swell party it was

Bruce Pairaudeau, the former West Indies batsman, relives the memory of those dramatic hours at Eden Park 50 years ago, when New Zealand rolled his West Indies side for just 77 in the second innings, to end what is still the longest winless test

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Cardigan Connor inspired by Ashes victory

Cardigan Connor, the former Hampshire fast bowler, is in Anguilla - the cricket-mad country in the Caribbean - and heading up a team of four cyclists and two athletes for the Commonwealth Games

25-Feb-2013•Will

Poorer counties' grounds for concern cut no ice

As the debate over the disparity in income between English counties whose grounds host Tests and those who don't rumbles on, Dennis Amiss, Warwickshire's retiring chairman, told Christopher Martin-Jenkins in The Times that there was more to the

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Aussies brush over advanced decay

Writing in the Guardian , Mike Selvey says the Australian team is in danger of becoming a laughing stock after recalling four players to play South Africa

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Australia's selectors face the backlash

Reaction to Australia’s Test squad still dominates the newspapers and Dean Jones tells The Australian the sacking of Brad Hodge for Damien Martyn could open the door for Matthew Hayden’s one-day return .

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

'Weekes is out!' echoed all over NZ

The New Zealand Herald spoke with the surviving members of the NZ team about their historic victory over the West Indies 50 years ago - their first in Test cricket

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Boycott demands Gough's one-day return

Geoffrey Boycott, never backwards in coming forwards, has sounded the clarion call for England to recall Darren Gough to the one-day squad.

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

George Bush 1 John Howard 0

John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister and an avid cricket fan, declined to have a bat against some of India's most promising fast bowlers during his visit to Dennis Lillee's MRF Pace Academy in India

25-Feb-2013•Will

An ice way to play the game

Some cricket-mad types in Estonia have taken to the ice to play the glorious game.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Sachin signs Monty's ball

Sachin Tendulkar, who became Monty Panesar's first Test victim at Nagpur last week, has signed the very ball for Panesar :

25-Feb-2013•Will

Bye bye Bono, hello Cape Town

Damien Martyn’s plans to attend U2’s Melbourne concert have been scrapped, as Alex Brown reports in the Sydney Morning Herald .

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Preferring gardening over cricket

An amusing opening paragraph was written in the obituary for John Junkin, a TV scriptwriter and actor, who died yesterday.

25-Feb-2013•Will

Warne opens up

Shane Warne has talked about his impending divorce and admitted that his behaviour in the past has cost him the chance of leading Australia

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Plugging the gap with panache

In his weekly email, The Spin , Lawrence Booth sums up his opinions on Andrew Flintoff’s captaincy of England .

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Sympathy - at last

Matthew Hoggard reveals, in his column for The Times newspaper , that he is delighted that Andrew Flintoff has taken over the captaincy for the short-term, because it means that the burdens bowlers face are sympathised with quite nicely - and not

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Legends chip in for McGrath

The Australian Cricketers’ Association’s new Legends Tour hits the Queensland outback town of Longreach, where Mark Taylor tells The Courier-Mail Glenn McGrath’s current lay-off could be helpful , and Rodney Hogg supports his bowling brother.

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

'I was lucky as a 19-year-old to play for India'

Far more mature than his age, Pathan agreed in an interview to Chandresh Narayanan of Times News Network that he feels older than 21 and the hard grind of international cricket had something to do with it.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Vincent talks himself out of Test squad

Was Lou Vincent really dropped, or did he simply talk himself out of the Test side to play the West Indies?

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Cuba's cricket revolution

The Daily Telegraph has a remarkable report on how cricket is making a big comeback in Cuba after disappearing for almost 30 years

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

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