An incisive look at series "colour"-washes in Test cricket

Feb 25, 2013: An in-depth analysis of series sweeps - the most comprehensive Test-series wins

Administration

Government and sports don't mix

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in Mint about the proposed law to regulate sports bodies in India, Ayaz Memon points out that the Indian government has a dismal track record in sports administration

English cricket

England success thrills ECB chief

Feb 25, 2013: Two years ago, ECB chairman Giles Clarke was widely criticised for the Stanford debacle, but now with the England team have a fantastic run, he is as secure as ever in the job and is expected to be elected unopposed for a third term next year

India in England, 2011

Where is India's succession planning?

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Selvey writes in the Guardian that Indian cricket has been complacent, banking on a few great players to pull through, and that the team could slide to fifth in the Test rankings over the next two years

UAE cricket

UAE's Ramzan night tournament

Feb 25, 2013: Osman Samiuddin finds that night cricket in Abu Dhabi is big during Ramzan

Indian cricket

India's oldest living Test cricketer turns 90

Feb 25, 2013: Madhav Mantri , the former Indian wicketkeeper who is also Sunil Gavaskar's uncle, turns 90 today

Indian cricket

India's sports minister should let the BCCI be

Feb 25, 2013: A bill that seeks to bring the BCCI and other national sports bodies under federal transparency and accountability laws has sparked controversy in India

Australians. They’re different

Feb 25, 2013: For instance, some of them are big wraps for others

Bowling

Talent drain in Test bowling

Feb 25, 2013: The ICC's annual Test XI underlines one thing in particular: that bowling stocks are at a generational nadir, writes Barney Ronay in the blog The Spin in the Guardian .

Stats

It's ultimately a numbers game

Feb 25, 2013: Steve James, in the Daily Telegraph , writes of the significant role statistics play in a team's preparation.

Pakistan in Zimbabwe 2011

South Africa to Zimbabwe, by road

Feb 25, 2013: Reports during last year's Christmas holidays revealed 19,000 people and 1000 trucks and buses were travelling across the Beitbridge border every day

USA

Two more Maryland counties add cricket

Feb 25, 2013: This week, PE teachers in Baltimore and Wicomico (Maryland) counties attended cricket training sessions in preparation for the start of the new school year

Papua New Guinea

PNG and Fiji going for gold

Feb 25, 2013: Fiji and PNG have each booked a place in Friday's gold medal match after wins over Vanuatu and New Caledonia respectively at the Pacific Games Cricket Competition in Noumea.

Pakistan cricket

Pakistan cricket, a year after the spot-fixing saga

Feb 25, 2013: Osman Samiuddin, writing in the National , looks back on how Pakistan cricket was rocked, yet again, one year ago, and how the team has responded creditably on the field in the aftermath of that scandal.

Stats

Cricket, the ultimate numbers game

Feb 25, 2013: Mathematics is rather important in one-day cricket, says Steve James, writing in the Daily Telegraph

Kenya

Kenya's cricketers on the road to nowhere

Feb 25, 2013: Colin MacBeth

What's up with Warne?

Feb 25, 2013: Hadley Freeman, writing in the Daily Guardian , has a tongue in cheek look at what's come over Shane Warne these days.

Lara not happy with making the headlines

Feb 25, 2013: It’s quite an honour having a stadium named after you, but what happens if the plan goes awry and there’s talk of having it converted into a detention centre

India in England, 2011

England tipped for ODI series win

Feb 25, 2013: Scyld Berry, in the Daily Telegraph , claims England are favourites to take the ODI series.

India in England, 2011

On a road less travelled

Feb 25, 2013: Jigar Naik is the first Leicester-born Asian to represent the county