Pakistan cricket

Will the Pakistan Super League take off?

Feb 25, 2013: The PCB launched its own Twenty20 league - the Pakistan Super League - in Lahore and the tournament is slated to take off in just about two months. Will it happen at all?

Indian cricket

India's long-term shortcomings

Feb 25, 2013: The Indian team is on a losing streak again and Palash Krishna Mehrotra, in the India Today, identifies five shortcomings the Indian team needs to do away with as soon as possible

England in India, 2012

England at home in India

Feb 25, 2013: The one-day series between India and England was given a thrilling start in Rajkot as the visitors ended a long way for an ODI win on Indian soil

Adequate rest resulting in injuries now?

Feb 25, 2013: Anyone who has read my recent posts will know that I've been shouting myself hoarse over the injury epidemic that is sweeping through world cricket

Cricket news hurl

Margaret the match fixer

Feb 25, 2013: Jesse Ryder took 9 wickets for 30 runs in a stunning spell of bowling in a dream I had this week. He was swinging it both ways like a bowler in Allan Border's Cricket

New Zealand cricket

Munro's familiar path

Feb 25, 2013: Colin Munro made his Test debut for New Zealand in Port Elizabeth, another cricketer hailing from South Africa before making his career elsewhere

Big Bash League 2012-13

A professional analysis of the BBL

Feb 25, 2013: In which the good and the bad are sorted out from the ugly

Indian cricket

India's fast-fading in-betweeners

Feb 25, 2013: Did the likes of Sehwag, Yuvraj, Harbhajan and Zaheer miss the bus for captaincy when Ganguly and Dravid needed successors?

Australian cricket

First glimpse of Shane Warne

Feb 25, 2013: I remember my first encounter with Shane Warne, in 1993, when Australia were about to play their first match of the Ashes tour against an England Amateurs XI at Radlett, just north of London

Cricket in the USA

No path from league to country

Feb 25, 2013: "So how does one get picked for the USA cricket team?” a colleague of mine asked me at lunch, a couple of years back

Australian cricket

Big Basher Bashing

Feb 25, 2013: In his blog for The Australian, Cuts and Glances, Gideon Haigh takes umbrage at a couple of BBL apologists, including Jonathan Howcroft for his Back Page Lead piece (below)

New Zealand cricket

Problems in New Zealand's cricket

Feb 25, 2013: New Zealand's capitulation to South Africa, when they were bowled out for 45 in Cape Town, is not a flash in the pan, says Mark Reason in stuff.co.nz

Australian cricket

A loveless marriage

Feb 25, 2013: Who are the outliers in the Australian cricket media landscape, the individuals who you may disagree with more often than not, but challenge the way you think about the game

Australian cricket

Warne in the doghouse, again

Feb 25, 2013: Shane Warne’s in trouble, again

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, QF

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Quarter-finals, Day 4

Feb 25, 2013: 4.15pm - It's all over @ Siddarth Monga, Now Final Day (5th day) is not required for result for all 3 matches

Cricketers: they're angry like us

Feb 25, 2013: If they get into spats every now and then, blame the hideous society we've created

Australian cricket

Warne trashes his brand

Feb 25, 2013: In his short time as Melbourne Stars captain, Shane Warne has made self-aggrandising statements about his ability to return to Test cricket and dominate, if only he felt like it, denigrated a national captain on television and victimised a vulnerable

Indian cricket

A hero's homecoming

Feb 25, 2013: Before his impressive ODI debut at the Kotla, Sehazpur Ali Nagar would hardly register Shami Ahmed's homecoming, but things changed on Sunday, writes Shamik Chakrabarty in the Indian Express

2013

Aristotle's predictions for 2013

Feb 25, 2013: Famous Greek philosopher weighs in on the year ahead. Hypothetically

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, QF

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Quarter-finals, Day 3

Feb 25, 2013: Services (toss) 263 (Paliwal 112, Rajpoot 5-61) and 116 for 5 (Chatterjee 34*, Paliwal 32*, Rajpoot 5-36) beat UP 134 (Imtiaz 53*, Nazar 5-51, Nishan 3-44) and 241 (Srivastava 54, Alam 50, Yadav 7-71) by five wickets in Indore