India in Australia 2011-12

Wake-up call for India

Feb 25, 2013: In his blog on the Times of India 's website, Avijit Ghosh says Indian fans should thank Australia for doling out a thumping that will force the India team to confront harsh realities

Stats

Brad Pitt wouldn't win a cricket match

Feb 25, 2013: Watching the movie Moneyball got Stuart MacGill thinking about how much use statistical analysis has in sport

India in Australia 2011-12

India do Australia a favour

Feb 25, 2013: India's insipid performance made Australia look better than they are, Greg Baum writes in the Sydney Morning Herald , but the confidence the 4-0 series win will give Australia is invaluable.

Pakistan v England 2012

Team Misbah triumphs

Feb 25, 2013: The Abu Dhabi pitch was easing up, the heavy roller would flatten it further. Team Misbah had batted too Misbah-ly, going at a crawl when a thrash or two would have eased nerves

Australian cricket

Warner's leap of joy

Feb 25, 2013: I thought given Australia's recent success and my last photo was of Australia losing, that today's photo should be of an Aussie looking happy

Australia v India 2011-12

When will the Indians feel embarrassed?

Feb 25, 2013: Because it seems the 4-0 whitewash merely disappointed them

England in UAE 2011-12

Matty or Trotty?

Feb 25, 2013: The last few days summed up why I watch the England side abroad. Not only has the cricket picked up from an English point of view, but perhaps more importantly there is also a feeling in the air that the tour has finally started.

Obituaries

How Mark Mascarenhas made cricket a business

Feb 25, 2013: In Caravan Magazine , Rahul Bhatia looks back on how Mark Mascarenhas - who was in fatal car accident ten years ago to a day - first broke open the business of cricket.

India in Australia 2011-12

Stop the madness

Feb 25, 2013: Ben Hilfenhaus’ body is built for a purpose, and you can’t imagine that purpose was ever running, diving and throwing all in one motion.

Batsman analysis by bowler-pitch quality - part 2

Feb 25, 2013: Part two of the study to analyse the careers of Test batsmen by bowling quality and type of pitches

Indian cricket

Why Tendulkar shouldn't get the Bharat Ratna

Feb 25, 2013: Over the past few months, there has been plenty of debate in India over whether Sachin Tendulkar should receive the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour

The Internet

An open letter to Giles Clarke

Feb 25, 2013: Well done. With your statement that Internet piracy is the "biggest danger to cricket" you have pulled off a rather wonderful trifect

India in Australia 2011-12

Axeing India's seniors not the solution

Feb 25, 2013: Aakash Chopra, in his column for Cricketnext.com writes that getting rid of India's senior players in one go will not improve India's Test record in the immediate future

A sinister conspiracy against county cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Sunday, 22nd January Like many cricket watchers, I have whined on incessantly about how boring modern Test pitches are

Pakistan v England in the UAE 2011-12

Misbah's stabilising mission

Feb 25, 2013: Misbah-ul-Haq has been the architect of the series so far to a great extent with his stoic batting, writes Scyld Berry in the Daily Telegraph .

India in Australia 2011-12

Nightmare for Yadav

Feb 25, 2013: The ball was floating through the air

Offbeat

Keep your clothes on at the cricket

Feb 25, 2013: There will be no skin on show at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, where spectators have been told to observe a strict dress code during the second Test between Pakistan and England

England in UAE 2011-12

Abu Dhabi: plenty to do

Feb 25, 2013: It's the eve of the second Test and I cannot wait for it to start.

Technology

Technology, where it all began

Feb 25, 2013: Nearly 30 years ago, an accountant in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Wijesinghe, made one of the earliest calls for video replays to assist the umpires at a time when technology in cricket was still in its infancy

India in Australia 2011-12

No 20-20 vision for India

Feb 25, 2013: The stock of Indian cricket is at its lowest since the match-fixing crisis of 2000, says Ashok Malik, writing in the Hindustan Times .