South Africa in England 2012

The Pietersen v Steyn spectacle

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Selvey, writing in the Guardian , recalls the Dale Steyn-Kevin Pietersen brief-but-exhilerating clash from the 2010 World Twenty20, and draws comparisons with it after the two faced off once more at Headingley on Saturday.

South Africa in England 2012

Unexpected bullies must finish the job

Feb 25, 2013: South African sort of tripped, fell, hurt themselves and had other things on their minds as the first Test started.

LV= County Championship, Saturday August 4, 2012

Feb 25, 2013: 4.25pm: Myles Hodgson at Lancashire v Somerset.

India in Sri Lanka 2012

Lonely Hambantota, lovely Pallekele

Feb 25, 2013: Hambantota and Pallekele. Two names we had heard frequently and always together in the run up to the 2011 World Cup, as the locations for the new stadiums Sri Lanka was building

England v South Africa 2012

Laws for fairytale giants

Feb 25, 2013: Surely they need to be different from those for commonfolk. Time to give Steven Finn an exemption, then

LV= County Championship, Friday August 3, 2012

Feb 25, 2013: 5pm: Jon Culley at Northamptonshire v Yorkshire

English cricket

Steven Finn's dead ball 'farcical'

Feb 25, 2013: Steven Finn had Graeme Smith edging to slip off a delivery that was called dead due to Finn's accidental dislodging of the bails on the non-striker's end while bowling on Thursday

English cricket

Swann not indispensable

Feb 25, 2013: Graeme Swann, left out of the England squad at Headingley for the first time since England's tour of the West Indies in 2009, was important to England, writes Vic Marks, in the Guardian

In praise of the long tail

Feb 25, 2013: Does anyone remember that sports other than those represented in the Olympics exist

LV= County Championship, Thursday August 2

Feb 25, 2013: 5.30pm: Jon Culley at Northamptonshire v Yorkshire

South Africa in England 2012

England v South Africa, Headingley, 1907

Feb 25, 2013: England recorded their first home win against South Africa in damp conditions at Headingley, 105 years ago

New Zealand in West Indies 2012

Vettori's absence creates opportunities

Feb 25, 2013: Daniel Vettori's injury has opened up an important role in the New Zealand side ahead of the second Test against West Indies and it could mean an opportunity for leg spinner Tarun Nethula, writes Matt Richens in Fairfax NZ .

English cricket

Much at stake for England in Leeds

Feb 25, 2013: England, like India before them, will prove worthy of being only "temporary custodians of the No

Team selections should be respected

Feb 25, 2013: Team selections may raise doubts, but if done fairly and with a certain objective in mind, must be respected and endured with to enable its fruition, writes Suresh Menon in cricketnext.in.com .

LV= County Championship, August 1

Feb 25, 2013: 5.20pm: Jon Culley at Northamptonshire v Yorkshire

South Africa in England 2012

Morne Morkel and a pot of yoghurt

Feb 25, 2013: This statistical analysis of England and South Africa's bowling attacks is helped along by some good bacteria

Test players' career-to-date average analysis

Feb 25, 2013: A detailed analysis of Test batsmen and bowlers using career-to-date averages

Indian cricket

A cricket rivalry to savour

Feb 25, 2013: The British engineers from Great Indian Penninsular Company of Railway built the Tilak Bridge in 1923 to connect east and west Dadar in Mumbai

English cricket

Pattinson remembers Headingley 2008

Feb 25, 2013: Darren Pattinson has told Paul Newman in the Daily Mail about his "surreal" England debut against South Africa at Headingley four years ago

South Africa in England 2012

Will South Africa tamper with the opening pair?

Feb 25, 2013: One area where South Africa need to show an improvement going ahead in the Test series is their opening partnership