English cricket

Cricket talent slipping through England's nets

Feb 25, 2013: The demographics of English cricket have changed in the last decade, with more players from privileged backgrounds making it to higher grades of cricket, says Scyld Berry in The Telegraph

West Indies in England 2012

The fate of West Indies and the Rolly Janglers

Feb 25, 2013: The Bangalore franchise's defeats can be blamed on the Zaltzman household

New Zealand cricket

NZC's confusion to find the Wright way

Feb 25, 2013: By pitting John Wright's intuitiveness against John Buchanan's ingenuity, two opposite ideologies, NZC created a situation that was expected to go out of hand

Newsfile IPL 2012

Newsfile: May 6

Feb 25, 2013: Mandeep eyes India cap : Mandeep Singh, who was India’s vice-captain during the 2010 Under-19 World Cup, has said he hopes his good showing for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL this year will win him an India cap

Pune Warriors

Steven Smith's terrific save

Feb 25, 2013: This IPL has had some shockers in the field but, on the other end of the spectrum, are stupendous saves on the boundary, like Steven Smith’s against Kolkata Knight Riders

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Virat Kohli batting in slow gear

Feb 25, 2013: Virat Kohli came into IPL 2012 in the form of his life

Australian cricket

Clarke's growth as a leader

Feb 25, 2013: Michael Clarke's captaincy has already yielded solid results for Australia at home and in the Caribbean

Indian cricket

Tendulkar needs to rein his handlers in

Feb 25, 2013: Sachin Tendulkar needs to keep a straight bat if he's to remain immortal, says Mukul Kesavan, in the National .

LV= County Championship, Saturday May 5

Feb 25, 2013: 10pm: Alex Winter rounds up the action

Newsfile IPL 2012

Newsfile: May 5

Feb 25, 2013: ’Our fielding cost us 30 runs’ – Lehmann: Deccan Chargers slipped to a 10-run loss against Chennai Super Kings on Friday, and Darren Lehmann said, once again, it was their fielding that let them down

New Zealand cricket

Andre Adams' international career

Feb 25, 2013: From Thomas Alcock, UK

England Lions: the team you often pick but never watch

Feb 25, 2013: Hell yeah

LV= County Championship, Friday May 4

Feb 25, 2013: 5.40pm: Father Christmas spotted

Indian cricket

The tragedy of overly building up Tendulkar

Feb 25, 2013: In bestowing upon Sachin Tendulkar the status of a god, we will eventually make him our victim, says Ajaz Ashraf in Pakistan's Daily Times .

West Indies cricket

West Indies fast bowlers will test England

Feb 25, 2013: The quality of West Indies’ fast bowlers in the 1980’s was a cut above the rest, with Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding and Joel Garner testing batsmen around the world

English cricket

The privilege of county cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Former Australian batsman Marcus North, who played for Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Lancashire during his career, says in the Sydney Morning Herald that he considers himself extremely privileged to be able to play county

Newsfile IPL 2012

Newsfile: May 4

Feb 25, 2013: Sangakkara asks overseas players to step up: As Deccan Chargers make a bid to close the gap between them and the other teams on the points table, captain Kumar Sangakkara has said the foreign signings in the team have to help ease the burden on the

West Indies cricket

Chanderpaul, the silent gatherer of runs

Feb 25, 2013: Now that Rahul Dravid has quit the international scene and Ricky Ponting's future is clearly in doubt; now that Sachin Tendulkar has been nudged towards a life in politics and Andrew Strauss's future is the cause for concern; who will be the next

Chennai Super Kings

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Feb 25, 2013: Short of IPL-branded tat

FA Cup final cricketers

Feb 25, 2013: With the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool only a few days away