India v Australia, 2nd Test, Hyderabad, 3rd day

Tough spin test awaits Australia - Pujara

Mar 4, 2013: Australia are in for a tough test against spin on the fourth day, double-centurion Cheteshwar Pujara has said

India v Australia, 2nd Test, Hyderabad, 3rd day

Has Sehwag run out of time?

Mar 4, 2013: With the series under India's control, one of the few questions confronting them is whether the opening combination needs to be rejigged yet again

County news

Northants bring in Pakistani seamer

Mar 4, 2013: Northamptonshire have signed 29-year-old Pakistani seamer Muhammad Azhar Ullah on a one-year deal

Sri Lanka news

Sri Lanka contracts crisis ends

Mar 4, 2013: The contracts crisis involving the Sri Lankan players and their board has officially ended with 23 players signing the annual contracts offered to them by the SLC

Cricket writing

Postcards to my cricketing homeland

Mar 4, 2013: Why do I write about cricket? It is because I'm infected by a deep nostalgia, an incurable homesickness; and sometimes because it seems that to stop writing about cricket would be to acknowledge that one part of my life is over and I can never go 'home'

Bangladesh in Sri Lanka 2012-13

Sri Lanka name best-available squad for first Test

Mar 4, 2013: Sri Lanka have named a full-strength squad for the first Test against Bangladesh, marking an official end to the contracts crisis between the players and the board

England news

Graves nominated as ECB deputy

Mar 4, 2013: Colin Graves has been nominated by the chairmen of the first-class counties and the MCC for the position of deputy chairman of the ECB

Sri Lanka Development Emerging Team v Bangladeshis, 2nd day

Rain robs Bangladesh of batting practice

Mar 4, 2013: Only six overs were possible on the second of Bangladesh's warm-up match before heavy showers engulfed the Uyanwatta Cricket Stadium

India v Australia, 2nd Test, Hyderabad, 3rd day

Warner c Merv Hughes b Ashwin

Mar 4, 2013: Plays of the Day from the third day of the second Test between India and Australia in Hyderabad.

Statistics

The vexed question of 'not outs' in Test cricket

Mar 4, 2013: The statistical measurement of a player's batting average is one that has survived unaltered for 130 years of Test cricket - but it suffers from a fundamental flaw in the way 'not outs' are handled

India news

Shoulder injury puts Tiwary out of action

Mar 4, 2013: Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary will be out of action for a few weeks after suffering a shoulder injury during the Bengal-Delhi semi-final in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Saturday

University Cricket Championship / Rohinton Baria Trophy

Varsity cricket back in the spotlight

Mar 4, 2013: The inter-university Rohinton Baria Trophy is no longer the premier tournament it was decades ago. Can the newly-launched T20 University Cricket Championship revive interest in ailing university cricket?

2nd Test, Hyderabad, 3rd day

India v Australia - turning points

Mar 4, 2013: Turning points from day three of the second Test match between India and Australia being played in Hyderabad.

Australia cricket

Australia must look ahead to the Ashes

Mar 4, 2013: Greg Baum suggests Australia must cut its India losses and build a new team for the Ashes

England in New Zealand, 2012-13

England must take New Zealand seriously

Mar 4, 2013: There have been suggestions that all England need to do to bag a 3-0 whitewash is to turn up. While the visitors begin as clear favourites, New Zealand are far from so hopeless that England can ignore their challenge

England in New Zealand 2012-13

Finn keeps his run-up short and simple

Mar 4, 2013: Steven Finn will continue to use his new shortened run-up in the Test series against New Zealand after quickly finding success with it in the one-day series

West Indies v Zimbabwe, 2nd T20, Antigua

We played like world champions - Sammy

Mar 4, 2013: West Indies played like "world champions" in their "clinical victory" over Zimbabwe in the Twenty20 series, according to captain Darren Sammy

India v Australia, 2nd Test, Hyderabad, 3rd day

Spin tightens India's grip on game

Mar 4, 2013: Cheteshwar Pujara and M Vijay set about breaking a bunch of records on the third morning in Hyderabad before Australia's spinners struck regularly to curtail India's innings

Afghanistan v Scotland, 1st Twenty20, Sharjah

Shahzad, bowlers lead Afghanistan to win

Mar 4, 2013: Afghanistan began their series against Scotland with a comfortable win in the first of two Twenty20 internationals in Sharjah

My other job

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