World Cricket Podcast

The importance of Sehwag's hair, and the most average cricketer ever

Feb 25, 2013: In this readers' questions special: what's more wasteful - Mitchell Johnson or carbon emissions

Australian cricket

Smith gamble fails to pay

Feb 25, 2013: Steve Smith is barely 23 years old and he's already a relic of another era. He is the last of Andrew Hilditch's big Ashes gambles

Why do so many bowlers get injured?

Feb 25, 2013: It's not just cricket that suffers this affliction of the uber-fit athlete who is engineered like a Ferrari to the point where they're next to useless when it comes to durability

Friends Life t20: Sunday, July 1

Feb 25, 2013: Crying out for KP The miserable spectacle of Surrey’s batting collapse against Hampshire – 9 for 4 in the third over and 42 for 6 in the 12th – was proof that their side had a bizarre imbalance

English cricket

'A wet and forgettable English summer'

Feb 25, 2013: Vic Marks, in the Guardian , looks back at the English season so far as 'a summer to forget'.

Twenty20

Watching a contest vs enjoying a party

Feb 25, 2013: It is with great pain that Robert Shrimsley, writing for Financial Times , calls a Twenty20 match a game of cricket, as his boy loves it, untouched by the absorbing potential of the 'real game'

Friends Life t20: Saturday, June30

Feb 25, 2013: The future of UK T20

Cricket

Why cricket is king

Feb 25, 2013: ESPNcricinfo editor Sambit Bal on why cricket - the Test format, in particular - is the best sport of all, in More Intelligent Life .

Australian cricket

From Khyber Pukhtunkhwa to Melbourne

Feb 25, 2013: Fawad Ahmed, a legspinner from Pakistan who is grabbing attention at the MCG nets, talks to the Australian Age 's Chloe Saltau about being threatened by religious extremists back home for playing the sport.

ICC

The circus comes to town

Feb 25, 2013: It's just that the town is in Malaysia

Bangladesh cricket

Shakib's window escape

Feb 25, 2013: On Bangladesh's third annual Social Business Day, which coincided with the birthday of Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, Shakib Al Hasan was invited to an event as one of four young achievers

Friends Life t20, Friday June 29

Feb 25, 2013: The franchise debate - more thoughts

ICC

Why would the BCCI act like Mandela?

Feb 25, 2013: For any ICC decision to be applicable it needs a 70% vote and India, with support from other boards, has been able to thwart some of the recommendations of the erstwhile veto-wielding nations

Beer and Viv Richards on Pearl Harbor Day

Feb 25, 2013: In high school, playing hooky to play or watch cricket was a common pastime

English cricket

England are not arrogant - Vaughan

Feb 25, 2013: Former England captain Michael Vaughan, writing in the Daily Telegraph , says that Shane Warne’s assertion that the current England team is confident and arrogant is incorrect, as England are very wary of Australia in the ODI series which begins

New Zealand cricket

Put an end to this Australian cricket blight

Feb 25, 2013: Joseph Romanos, writing in the Dominion Post , says that the list of 20 players contracted by New Zealand Cricket for next season is ridiculous, and highlights a problem within the game in this country.

Australian cricket

Against setting up window for T20 leagues - Paul Marsh

Feb 25, 2013: In a long interview with Game Changer Paul Marsh, the chief executive of the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA), talks about the recent MoU between the ACA and Cricket Australia and also explains why the ACA didn't favour the creation of a

Bowling

Is spin bowling a dying art?

Feb 25, 2013: Who are the leading spinners in world cricket at the moment? Harbhajan? Vettori? Swann? Ajmal? Or somebody else?

Afghanistan cricket

Afghanistan's success story is heart-warming

Feb 25, 2013: Scyld Berry, writing in the Daily Telegraph , says that rise of the Afghanistan cricket team is the most heart-warming story in contemporary cricket.

Friends Life t20, Thursday June 28

Feb 25, 2013: Franchises and the false Australian comparison