Tendulkar, the 'normaliser'

Feb 25, 2013: Following Sachin Tendulkar 's recent retirement from one-day internationals, a number of people shared their favorite memory of him

Indian cricket

Numbers don't do Tendulkar justice

Feb 25, 2013: In a blog, Mahesh Sethuraman says Sachin Tendulkar's ODI numbers are so overwhelming, it's easy to forget the bigger picture when computing them.

Australian cricket

Cricket is in Ponting's debt

Feb 25, 2013: Australia batsman Ed Cowan pays tribute to Ricky Ponting in the Australian

Offbeat

A German footballer at the cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Dietmar Hamann, the former Germany and Liverpool midfielder, speaks to All Out Cricket about discovering cricket, a "thinking man's game"

Pakistan in India 2012-13

India v Pakistan, without the noise

Feb 25, 2013: An editorial in the Indian Express says that while the buzz may be missing from Pakistan's ongoing tour of India, that does not necessarily translate into tame cricket, and is actually what the fan always wanted

Australia cricket

Australia's 'best XI policy' goes for a toss

Feb 25, 2013: Why not just entrust the fitness of an individual to that individual himself, and allowing him to live and die by his own fitness regime?

Memo to Mahela

Feb 25, 2013: Why the Sri Lanka captain needs to zip it

Retirement

A fan's appeal

Feb 25, 2013: After Sachin's retirement from ODIs, Vijay Lokapally, writing in the Hindu, describes the pain a fan goes through when his favourite player retires without playing a farewell game

Commentary

The cult of the commentators' curse

Feb 25, 2013: Suhit Kelkar, writing in the Open Magazine, talks about the cult of the commentators' curse - the superstitious belief that prophesies and early judgments made my a commentator during play ultimately embarrass them

Awards

The mercilessly squeezed goose and other stories

Feb 25, 2013: In other words, the Confectionery Stall's World Cricket Awards, part one

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Round VIII

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Round VIII, Day 4

Feb 25, 2013: 5.15pm What a day of Ranji cricket

Pakistan in India 2012-13

We need a longer season of cricket goodwill

Feb 25, 2013: It is the season of goodwill. Pakistan's cricketers are in India to restart the healing process for fractured political relationships.

Indian cricket

Tendulkar 'incomparable'

Feb 25, 2013: Sachin Tendulkar may have been a great batsman in Tests, but in one-dayers, he is incomparable, writes Dileep Premachandran in Wisden India

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Round VIII

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Round VIII, Day 3

Feb 25, 2013: 5.15pm - Lots to watch out for Kerala and Vidarbha have surged back into contention with outright wins today

Indian cricket

Tendulkar and the cult of deification

Feb 25, 2013: Ajaz Ashraf, in the Times of India's Crest, says that the debate over whether Sachin Tendulkar should retire provides a perspective into the collective Indian psyche

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Round VIII

Ranji Trophy, Round VIII, Day 2

Feb 25, 2013: 5.10pm Another eventful day

Cricket News Hurl

Salt Water Moose drowns Test cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Jesse Ryder inspired Luke Ronchi to make a hundred in each innings for Wellington against Northern Districts this week

English cricket

Flintoff retirement beckons (or a fight with Ryder)

Feb 25, 2013: No, this is not a headline dug out from the archives but the latest reality for Andrew Flintoff's career

Indo-Pak cricket

Two nations better than one?

Feb 25, 2013: One recurring fantasy of the Indian cricket fan is to speculate about a combined India-Pakistan team

The international cricket apprenticeship scheme

Feb 25, 2013: Is it working as well as it should? Ajinkya Rahane may disagree