England

Goodbye Strauss

Feb 25, 2013: Who showed us he was as decent a mountaineer as he was a batsman

Indian cricket

Farmland to cricket ground

Feb 25, 2013: An idyllic cricket ground is making waves off National Highway 48, at Mahadevpura near Bangalore

New Zealand in India 2012

New Zealand batsmen need to show self-belief

Feb 25, 2013: John Wright, in the Asian Age , says that although the Hyderabad Test defeat was demoralising, New Zealand batsmen have the ability to fight it out against India

LV= County Championship, Thursday, August 30

Feb 25, 2013: 6.30pm: Jon Culley at Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire

English cricket

Strauss among the best England captains

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Strauss' retirement is a great loss to English cricket, writes Scyld Berry in the Telegraph

Indian cricket

Success and failure are part of life - Laxman

Feb 25, 2013: VVS Laxman talks to V V Subrahmanyam in the Sportstar about his rise as a young cricketer from Hyderabad to one of of the mainstays of Indian batting for more than a decade

English cricket

Strauss: the dignified role model

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Strauss may have had problems related to his batting or with his approach sometimes as an overall pragmatic captain, but he conducted himself with utmost dignity as an England captain off the field

Pakistan cricket

Hafeez should rejudge his value as a batsman

Feb 25, 2013: Analysing Mohammad Hafeez's statistics as a batsman and an off-spinner, Mazher Arshad, writing in Dawn , argues that it was time that Hafeez was moved to the lower-order in the Pakistan ODI line-up

Indian cricket

Still some way to go for the U-19s

Feb 25, 2013: In Mint , Venkat Ananth writes about the need for India's World Cup-winning U-19 players to establish themselves in domestic cricket before eying a spot in the national senior team

Strauss - A very English captain

Feb 25, 2013: It is with some sadness, even from the other side of the world, that I digest the news of Andrew Strauss retiring from all forms of cricket

LV= County Championship, Wednesday August 29

Feb 25, 2013: 3.40pm: Les Smith at Yorkshire v Gloucestershire

Pakistan cricket

'My whole life has just been cricket'

Feb 25, 2013: Former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis on being handpicked by Imran Khan for a national camp, how he perfected the reverse-swinging yorker, and winning a Test alongside Wasim Akram with the bat

South African cricket

Colin Croft on SA's ascent to the Test summit

Feb 25, 2013: Former West Indies quick Colin Croft says, in an article in Nation News , South Africa getting to the top of world cricket is a massive achievement, given that they returned to the international fold but 20 years ago

English cricket

Could county cricket do it for KP?

Feb 25, 2013: On the evidence of Kevin Pietersen's reaction after getting to his century in the Championship match in Taunton , he has a soft spot for county cricket, says Tanya Aldred in the Daily Telegraph

Indian cricket

Unmukt's college blues

Feb 25, 2013: Unmukt Chand, captain of India's Under-19 World Cup winning team, may be the toast of the country right now but back in his college he's just another student paying the price for skipping classes

Indian cricket

Sehwag and the art of batting

Feb 25, 2013: Virender Sehwag talks to Shirin Sadikot on his batting philosophy, his strengths as a batsman, his changing approach towards batting, his seemingly unshakable confidence and more

England

SLPL's über-cool team names

Feb 25, 2013: And the return of Kamran Akmal

Indian cricket

A coach who laughed his way to glory

Feb 25, 2013: In the Times of India , Makarand Waingankar profiles former Mumbai player and coach Vasu Paranjpe , whom he describes as " a cricketer who won matches through words".

Tests

Quaint bookstore v glitzy chain

Feb 25, 2013: It is widely predicted that the older forms of cricket and bookselling will go the way of the dinosaur. But, like their book-loving counterparts, fans of the five-day format are a determined lot

LV= County Championship, Tuesday August 28

Feb 25, 2013: 6.45pm: Jon Culley at Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire