South Africa in England 2012

'Smith will be worried' - Vaughan

Feb 25, 2013: Michael Vaughan, writing in his column in the Daily Telegraph , says England start favourites in the upcoming Test series and the loss of Mark Boucher will hurt South Africa's chances.

Australian cricket

Brett Lee had the X-factor

Feb 25, 2013: Brett Lee decided to draw the curtain on a stellar career last week - a career not only highlighted by cricketing achievements but also by the fame that came along with it; Lee's popularity is matched by only a few in cricket, he had it all, says

Indian cricket

Needless publicity and 'Sachin'

Feb 25, 2013: A friend gets agitated every time someone refers to Tendulkar as Sachin. "It's always Ponting, Lara, Dravid, Kallis … and Sachin," he cribs. He then rants about how this clouds the world's assessment of a man is who, at best, "above average"

LV= County Championship, Sunday July 15

Feb 25, 2013: 2.40pm: Myles Hodgson at Lancashire v Worcestershire

Indian cricket

Tendulkar’s interests not same as India’s

Feb 25, 2013: Suresh Menon, writing in Wisden India , says if Sachin Tendulkar is not likely to play the 2015 World Cup, "he has no business being in the Indian team to Sri Lanka this month."

New Zealand cricket

Action needed to stop rot

Feb 25, 2013: The lack of preparation leading into the current tour of the West Indies reeked of arrogance that New Zealand Cricket and the players have not earned or can ill afford, writes Mark Richardson in the Herald on Sunday .

Pakistan in Sri Lanka 2012

Mahela and Misbah got it wrong

Feb 25, 2013: Mahela Jayawardene is a good batsman and comes across as a thoughtful, astute cricketer in most of his public pronouncements

Pakistan in Sri Lanka 2012

The Pakistan journalists go AWOL

Feb 25, 2013: Not surprisingly, a question I was often asked, especially in the smaller towns like Hambantota, Galle and Kandy, was "are you from Pakistan?"

South African cricket

A commoner behind the stumps

Feb 25, 2013: He was not that brilliant a player for whom words would fall short; he was no Viv Richards, he was no Jacques Kallis, he was simply Mark Boucher; yet the announcement of his retirement has somewhere left us with a feeling of an unexplained gloom

South Africa in England 2012

No one's laughing at Amla anymore

Feb 25, 2013: Hashim Amla has come a long way from the first time England encountered him as a circumspect batsman in 2004 to become one of South Africa's batting mainstay

LV= County Championship, Saturday July 14

Feb 25, 2013: 3.20pm: Andrew McGlashan with an update

West Indies cricket

'The chaos that is Jamaican cricket'

Feb 25, 2013: Jamaica may be among the successful Caribbean sides, but Orville Higgins, for Jamaica Gleaner , writes that Jamaican cricket is not run in a most healthy manner, after 12 Under-15 cricketers were deemed ineligible for a regional competition four

South Africa in England, 2012

On to Canterbury after the trials of Taunton

Feb 25, 2013: It was raining in Canterbury but the weather cleared sufficiently for both cricket and sightseeing - a tour of the magnificent cathedral

Zimbabwe

Giving up cricket for Him

Feb 25, 2013: But does He want you to?

'Boucher and Ramprakash reflected their team's image'

Feb 25, 2013: The Old Batsman, in his blog , compares the careers of Mark Boucher and Mark Ramprakash, both of whom have retired, and explores the essence of their impressions on international cricket

LV= County Championship, Friday July 13

Feb 25, 2013: 6.15pm: Ivo Tennant at Hampshire v Yorkshire

Indian cricket

A response to Harsha Bhogle

Feb 25, 2013: The reality is that in the current environment access to players, especially marquee players like Tendulkar, is becoming increasingly limited

Bowling

Reverse swing, a dying trade?

Feb 25, 2013: Though seamers enjoyed troubling batsmen in the initial stages of the Pallekele Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Shaan Agha, in a blog in Dawn , says menacing reverse swing, the likes of which were on display in the 1990s, may not be seen or

South African cricket

Boucher shock: South Africa's testing mental battle

Feb 25, 2013: Neil Manthorp, writing in Mail & Guardian , reasons that South Africa's recent arduous physical campaign of Switzerland may not have been adequate to mentally prepare them for shocks such as Mark Boucher's injury and retirement.

Pakistan in Sri Lanka 2012

A defeat tinged with optimism

Feb 25, 2013: Any match is merely a stepping stone on the long and winding road to the summit of international cricket