West Indies cricket

Missing Gayle leaves a West Indies charisma void

Feb 25, 2013: West Indies will be without their one-day Bradman on the tour of England, says the Guardian 's Barney Ronay, and this takes away some of their sheen.

Indian Premier League

Village boy Parvinder Awana in the spotlight

Feb 25, 2013: Kings XI Punjab and Delhi bowler Parvinder Awana tells the Hindustan Times ' Shalabh Manocha about how he went from the Araula village near Noida to a training camp in Australia and ended up with a career in cricket instead of the police force.

LV= County Championship, Saturday April 28

Feb 25, 2013: 6.30pm: Alan Gardner rounds up the action

Cricket

How will Tendulkar contribute in the parliament?

Feb 25, 2013: If Sachin Tendulkar doesn’t deliver on the parliamentary turf, he needn’t be embarrassed, says Iftikhar Gilani in DNA , and gives us a brief of what the other cricketers-turned-politicians - who were elected - have done during their terms.

Indian Premier League

Football leagues threat to IPL

Feb 25, 2013: Viewership reports for IPL5 have pointed towards decline in TV ratings, a troubling trend which will impact the league when sponsorships are renegotiated

Newsfile IPL 2012

Newsfile: April 28

Feb 25, 2013: Sangakkara fined: Deccan Chargers’ captain Kumar Sangakkara has been fined $20,000 for his team’s slow over-rate in their game against Pune Warriors on Thursday

Sourav Ganguly

An ode to Gangulylocks

Feb 25, 2013: The Pune captain's new hair is as inspiring as the man himself

Cricket

Minimum three Tests in a series - Sangakkara

Feb 25, 2013: Kumar Sangakkara, former Sri Lanka captain, believes that Test cricket is the No

Deccan Chargers

White's IPL nightmare ends

Feb 25, 2013: Cameron White had come into the inaugural IPL touted as one of the hottest Twenty20 talents around, with Royal Challengers Bangalore betting big on him though he was still a fringe player for Australia

LV= County Championship, Friday April 27

Feb 25, 2013: 7.30pm: Alan Gardner wraps up the day

Stadiums - shrines for sporting travellers

Feb 25, 2013: Players perform and go, but stadiums remain as the custodians of sport

Newsfile IPL 2012

Newsfile: April 27

Feb 25, 2013: Theron happy to get a game: In what was Deccan Chargers seventh match of the season, South Africa fast bowler Rusty Theron finally got a game, and he said he was pleased to be back amid the action

English cricket

Seventy and still going strong

Feb 25, 2013: Brian Viner in The Independent chats with arguably the oldest trio to represent a team - the septuagenarians who have been part of Ealing Cricket Club for the last 57 years.

English cricket

So for once it is not a batsman’s game

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket has long favoured batsmen at the expense of bowlers

Cricket's 'Chucking' Challenge

Feb 25, 2013: West Indian allrounder Marlon Samuels was recently reported for a suspect action while playing for Pune Warriors in the IPL

Indian Premier League

What has become of the city-based league?

Feb 25, 2013: The IPL was initially promoted as a city-based league with the emphasis on building a strong local connect, says Hindustan Times ' Sanjjeev Karan Samyal, but somewhere along the line that concept has been lost.

South African cricket

Rebuilding South African cricket, ball by ball

Feb 25, 2013: Neil Manthorp, in the Mail & Guardian , says it may seem counterintuitive to celebrate Cricket South Africa's slow but inevitable slide into a humiliating credibility void, but it is the prospect of what lies ahead that is so exciting

LV= County Championship, Thursday April 26

Feb 25, 2013: 7pm: Alex Winter rounds up the day

Australian cricket

WWI death of Australian Test hero Cotter revealed

Feb 25, 2013: Albert Cotter, a slinging fast bowler who played Ashes cricket in Australia and England between 1903 and 1912, died as an Anzac in the Australian Lighthorse charge on Beersheba, Paige Taylor tells us in the Australian

Indian Premier League

The coolest, scariest IPL experience

Feb 25, 2013: I worked for a cult once.