South Africa in England 2012

Steven Finn showcases his skills

Feb 25, 2013: England had a couple of selectorial dilemmas before this Test

England cricket

Compassionate KP

Feb 25, 2013: It's high time I attempted to bring Shot Selection right up to date. Some of the photographs that I've featured recently are over 15 years old so I thought I'd choose a shot from the last couple of weeks

Indian cricket

VVS Laxman, the artiste

Feb 25, 2013: With VVS Laxman’s exit, one of Indian cricket’s most glorious chapters of aesthetic batting has shut, says Vijay Lokapally in the Hindu .

West Indies cricket

West Indies' steps towards erasing difficult phase

Feb 25, 2013: West Indies' victories in the past two decades have been few and far between

New Zealand cricket

NZC needs to be more responsible

Feb 25, 2013: Ahead of New Zealand's tour of India, the team finds itself surrounded by problems after a disastrous tour of the West Indies, something that New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has to address to be in a position to call itself a "world leading sports

English cricket

Pietersen's insecurity has led to his downfall

Feb 25, 2013: The Pietersen saga has put the batsman in a negative light and eventually led to his omission from the England squad

Australian cricket

Michael Clarke's academy dreams

Feb 25, 2013: Michael Clarke has bought a multi-million dollar property in New South Wales with the intention of turning it into a cricket academy

South African cricket

Morne Morkel and the age of the hippo

Feb 25, 2013: Morne Morkel has always interested me. There's something about him that makes me think Boris Karloff would have loved to play him in a film

LV= County Championship, Saturday August 18

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

England v South Africa 2012

How to write an end-of-season report

Feb 25, 2013: Here are both sides - with galaxy bumps and xenophobia

English cricket

How to boost English domestic cricket

Feb 25, 2013: I found myself undertaking ECB's new county cricket questionnaire, which they will hope to roll out to over a million people in the coming weeks, undoubtedly in order to ascertain some slightly more coherent proposals going forward

LV= County Championship, Friday August 17, 2012

Feb 25, 2013: 6.40pm: Jon Culley at Nottinghamshire v Durham

Analysing ODI careers in segments

Feb 25, 2013: A look at ODI batting and bowling records of players, splitting each career into three parts

Cricket

Chinese cricketer breaks boundaries

Feb 25, 2013: Jiang Shuyao - the first Chinese cricketer to play in an overseas league - has travelled from Shenyang, China to play club cricket in England

This was surely the longest cricketing day

Feb 25, 2013: Goodbye to the emotional ups and downs

English cricket

Pietersen may not be the only one at fault

Feb 25, 2013: Although Kevin Pietersen did himself no favours by letting the world know about his discomfort in the England dressing room, Paul Newman, in his column in the Daily Mail , wonders whether it was forced on him because he wasn't accepted the way he

LV= County Championship, Thursday August 16

Feb 25, 2013: 5.30: Paul Edwards at England Lions v Australia A

Australian cricket

Bolt, Blake may undermine BBL

Feb 25, 2013: The induction of Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake in the Big Bash League would "trivialise" the tournament, according to Chloe Saltau in the Sydney Morning Herald

Indian cricket

Indian selectors need enthusiasm

Feb 25, 2013: After the selection of the Indian Test and T20 squads last week, Makarand Waingankar, writing in the Hindu , concludes today's selectors need to be passionate and less analytical about statistics, as in the past.

South Africa in England 2012

Kids having banana fights in the back seat

Feb 25, 2013: In which we find out what the England team have been reduced to