Ask Aakash

Feb 25, 2013: The reader response to the blog has been pleasing, and here are answers to some of the questions that came up in the feedback

English cricket

Reviews of the English season

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Australia in India 2008-09

Hot' Bhajji must let ball do the talking

Feb 25, 2013: R Mohan, writing in the website Krishcricket , believes Harbhajan Singh should flight the ball more instead of firing it in quickly.

English cricket

Why Durham have done the business

Feb 25, 2013: Durham's success has been based on a business model which the other first-class counties, the Test-playing countries and the International Cricket Council would do well to heed, then follow, says Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph .

England in India 2008-09

Picking England's team for the India Tests

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Australia in India 2008-09

Pray, Jaipur does not haunt us like Nagpur

Feb 25, 2013: In the Hindustan Times , Pradeep Magazine compares the build-up to Australia's tour - especially the facilities provided to then by the Rajasthan Cricket Academy - to the green top they received in Nagpur in the 2004 series.

English cricket

MCC not keeping with the times

Feb 25, 2013: The MCC has too few female members, despite ending its men-only rule ten years ago, writes Emily Dugan in the Independent on Sunday .

Indian cricket

Will new masters make the right moves?

Feb 25, 2013: As Indian cricket bids adieu to a powerful old panel, it would be interesting to see if the new one steers in a dawn or if it will take us back to days of infighting and power-struggles at every turn, writes Bobilli Vijay in the Times of India .

New Zealand cricket

Being set up for a fall

Feb 25, 2013: The last time New Zealand toured Australia was 2004

Michael Jeh

The sweep spot

Feb 25, 2013: My prediction is that the India-Australia series, and England’s tour to India, will be a 'sweep-fest'

West Indies cricket

Sponsorship woes continue to hit Jamaica's cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in the Jamaica Gleaner , Anthony Foster looks at why Jamaica, even though they have produced more West Indies players than any other country in the region, still can't find a sponsor for its top-flight one-day tournament.

Allrounders

The world's best all-rounder

Feb 25, 2013: A bowler who can bat a bit (Abid Ali) or a batsmen who can turn his arm a bit (Sehwag) or a bowler who chances his way to a hundred (Agarkar), have at various times have been dubbed as all-rounders

Australia in India 2008-09

Sehwag and Hayden will be most influential

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Australian cricket

A notorious feud, an ugly sectarian conflict

Feb 25, 2013: Greg Growden's Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up To Bradman is not merely a biography of Fingleton, gutsy Test batsman and peerless cricket writer

The sweet taste of humble pie

Feb 25, 2013: If Durham land their first Championship pennant, Steve Harmison will be able to spend at least the next couple of months blowing enthusiastic raspberries in the general vicinity of the press box.

Namibia

Namibia name squad for Intercontinental Cup game

Feb 25, 2013: Tony Munro

South African cricket

Thanks for nothing, India

Feb 25, 2013: Ken Borland, in the Mail & Guardian , pins the blame on the BCCI for an unattractive draw for the upcoming South African cricketing summer: a depleted Bangladesh team after 13 of their players signed up for the ICL.

Indian cricket

BCCI's office 'befitting their status'

Feb 25, 2013: In 2004, the Mumbai-based Mid Day ran a story on the ramshackle offices the BCCI operated out of

West Indies cricket

The rise of Stanford

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Australian cricket

The Don would not have approved

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