English cricket

India a daunting place for baptisms

Feb 25, 2013: In an anecdote-laden piece in the Observer, Frank Keating looks back England's tours to India and the difficulties inexperienced captains faced

Australian cricket

Gideon Haigh's 'best book yet'

Feb 25, 2013: When Haigh embarked upon his new book, On Warne , Ed Cowan said at its launch, he had been surprised. But Haigh was intrigued by Warne, and that has helped him churn out his "best book yet"

England in India 2012

Shane Warne on how to win in India

Feb 25, 2013: As England prepares to take on India in the first Test in Ahmedabad, Shane Warne, writing in the The Telegraph, shares a formula to be successful in India, taken from Australia's triumphant 2004 tour of India

USA

Dismissed secretary sues USACA for $1.5m

Feb 25, 2013: Former USA Cricket Association executive secretary Kenwyn Williams has launched legal action for damages against the board, claiming in excess of $1.5 million for what he claims is action which exposed him to “public contempt, ridicule, aversion and

XIs

The novelists who ate bowlers

Feb 25, 2013: Or how Robert Ludlum and John Updike turned promising ODI superstars into long-format wrecks

Business jargon in cricket: who's accountable?

Feb 25, 2013: All sports, not just cricket, are in the habit now of obfuscating the plain truth with jargon that has probably been borrowed from a business text book

South Africa in Australia 2012-13

Cowan's joyful loneliness

Feb 25, 2013: You make the hundred. You go crazy. The crowd roar. You celebrate with your batting partner. You acknowledge your family, team-mates and the crowd

Cricket

Flintoff circus rolls into the ring

Feb 25, 2013: In his latest venture to fill the gaping hole of retirement, Andrew Flintoff has taken to boxing and a convenient three-part TV series ahead of his first professional bout on November 30

Serbia

Serbia emerges from humble beginnings

Feb 25, 2013: Tristan Lavalette on how in Serbia cricket is slowly taking a hold among the indigenous population

England in India 2012

'England win would be bigger than the Ashes'

Feb 25, 2013: Former England captain, Michael Vaughan, writing for the Daily Telegraph , says that a victory for England in the Test series against India would be bigger than the Ashes

New Zealand cricket

Another Black Caps defeat, but does anyone care?

Feb 25, 2013: With incessant rain affecting the outcome of all four ODI's between New Zealand and Sri Lanka, Hamish Bidwell, writing for stuff.co.nz, says that the banality of short-form cricket has scarcely been better illustrated than by this series

Tribute

An elegy for Peter Roebuck

Feb 25, 2013: It has been a year since Peter Roebuck committed suicide in South Africa

South Africa in Australia 2012-13

Kallis is more dangerous without burden of expectation

Feb 25, 2013: Robert Craddock, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says that Kallis is more dangerous when he is free from the burden of expectation

England in India 2012

Will Motera curator save England their blushes?

Feb 25, 2013: Sumit Chakraberty, writing for DNA, says that the curator in Ahmedabad will, undoubtedly, produce a batting-friendly pitch which may favour spinners as well

Ranji Trophy 2012013, round II

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Round II, Day 4

Feb 25, 2013: Finally an end to the round that produced three results and nine draws

England in India 2012

England's scope for hope

Feb 25, 2013: Vic Marks, writing in The Observer, says that even though the bookies are predicting an India win, there is reason for England to think a first series victory in the country in almost 28 years is a possibility

Commentary

Commentary box isn't the same without Tony Greig

Feb 25, 2013: Tony Greig won't be part of this season's commentary team as he has been diagnosed with cancer, and Ian Chappell says in the Daily Telegraph that it won't be the same without him

The old-school coach

Feb 25, 2013: With overseas debacles in England and Australia, Duncan Fletcher hasn't had the best of starts to his tenure as India's coach, but it's too early to write him off, writes Bharat Sundaresan in the Indian Express

Ranji Trophy 2012013, round II

Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Round II, Day 3

Feb 25, 2013: That's a wrap on the third day

Cricket News Hurl

Cricket News Hurl: Vulnerable Dossier Edition

Feb 25, 2013: Strengths: Only comes out once a week. Only the third edition, so still not that annoying. Has a lot of cricket news in it