Zimbabwe cricket

To play for Zimbabwe again

Feb 25, 2013: Alester Maregwede played international cricket for Zimbabwe between 2003 and 2005 and is now playing club cricket in Australia where he took his side to its first title in 20 years and won a number of awards on the way

Afghanistan

Video of cricket in Afghanistan

Feb 25, 2013: In April, Matthew Fleming headed to Afghanistan to open cricket pitches and spread the good name of MCC - and, indeed, the sport - among rural communities in the country

Peter English on The Ashes, 2009

KP between Boom and Kaplonk

Feb 25, 2013: Kevin Pietersen steps up to talk on Monday and he can't finish a sentence without being interrupted

Batting

ODI Strike Rates - a fresh look (and a preview of Test Bowler Analysis)

Feb 25, 2013: A comparison of batsmen career strike rates with the strike rates of the rest of the team in the matches played by the batsman indicates how quickly he scored compared to his team-mates

Ashes

Freddie owes us, big time

Feb 25, 2013: Paul Weaver writes in his Guardian blog that Andrew Flintoff has borrowed freely from the goodwill of the English public and now he owes them - big time.

Ashes

Cricket culture or celebrity culture?

Feb 25, 2013: Nick Bryant, the BBC's Sydney correspondent, writing in the Australian , wonders if the winning culture of the Australian cricket team has been overtaken by celebrity culture.

Ashes

Flintoff not dicking around

Feb 25, 2013: "I've had a dicky ankle and a dicky knee, but that's behind me now, so I can concentrate on playing some cricket instead of being a professional rehabber." Thats Andrew Flintoff keeping it simple ahead of the Ashes

Ashes

The Red Bull run

Feb 25, 2013: In the Courier-Mail , Robert Craddock looks at the many sides of Kevin Pietersen, the man with the greatest potential to unsettle Australia during the Ashes.

Peter English on The Ashes, 2009

Time to get serious

Feb 25, 2013: So everyone now moves to Cardiff and it’s goodbye to the delightful Worcester experience

Ashes

A phlegmatic captain

Feb 25, 2013: Disastrous Ashes tours usually end in the demise of an England captain

Serbia

Cricket debuts in Serbia

Feb 25, 2013:

Pakistan cricket

Afridi reincarnated

Feb 25, 2013:

Sri Lankan cricket

Is the warrior ready for curtains?

Feb 25, 2013: Ignored for the Test series against Pakistan, Chaminda Vaas has now found himself having to defend comments from Ashantha de Mel, Sri Lanka's chief selector, that he has decided to quit the five-day game

Ashes

An Ashes feud that lasted for life

Feb 25, 2013: The Observer is running extracts from a new biography on 'Bodyline' bowler Harold Larwood and the animosity between him and the greatest ever batsman, Don Bradman

Peter English on The Ashes, 2009

The sweetest thing ... for some

Feb 25, 2013: At the start of each day the Australians have been standing in a circle in the outfield inspiring each other with short speeches on their favourite Ashes memories

Nepal

Nepal Women continue running streak

Feb 25, 2013: Nepal's Under-19 Women beat Singapore today in a bowl-out, continuing their winning spree in the ACC Women's T-20 tournament in Malaysia

Ashes 2009

Bratich fights the WAGs' corner

Feb 25, 2013: Those who have slammed Cricket Australia for allowing WAGs – that sorry acronym to describe wives and girlfriends, which can’t help but sound derogatory and infantile – should watch out

Ashes

Panesar provokes more questions for selectors

Feb 25, 2013:

Ashes 2009

England win the Blogger's Ashes

Feb 25, 2013: For those who seek omens at this stage of the build-up to an Ashes campaign, a fairly sizeable one was on display at Barnes Cricket Club last week, when England beat Australia by 28 runs … in the inaugural Blogger’s Ashes

Peter English on The Ashes, 2009

Siddle axes chopping

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Siddle is being painted as the next Merv Hughes in some sections of England and there is a thirst like Big Merv’s in his playing days for details on the latest Victorian fast bowler