Twenty20 World Cup 2009

I'm missing the Badshahs and the Badmashes

Feb 25, 2013: Pakistan face a desperate, nerve-tingling struggle to beat Netherlands, a team of part-time cricketers, and progress in this World Cup

Associates

Ireland strike another blow for Associates

Feb 25, 2013: Three days after Netherlands embarrassed England, Ireland have taken another scalp for Associate cricket with a six-wicket win over Bangladesh at Trent Bridge.

Nepal

Kathmandu reach domestic final

Feb 25, 2013: Kathmandu have reached the final of the Springwood National T20 tournament with their fourth win in as many matches, beating Biratnagar by eight wickets

Rwanda

Rwanda miss Kenya tournament

Feb 25, 2013: Rwanda's failure to show up - for whatever reason - and some poor weather put a dampener on the first two days of the Africa Cricket Association (ACA) East Africa Under-13 boys' competition in Nakuru, Kenya.

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Staunch Kiwi support made my skin tingle

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Under-19s

Papua New Guinea win EAP U-19 title

Feb 25, 2013: Papua New Guinea are the East Asia-Pacific Under-19 champions after they beat Vanuatu by 172 runs in the final at Amini Park, Port Moresby.

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Curry craving

Feb 25, 2013: Whatever happens to the Bangladesh team in Monday’s match against Ireland, they have a treat to look forward to: Tuesday’s curry lunch

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Are you England in disguise?

Feb 25, 2013: In only one respect was England's victory over Pakistan fortunate and that was that England came up against the one team who had looked even rustier than themselves in the warm-up games, writes Mike Atherton in the Times

Australian cricket

No easy wiping away of Symonds mess

Feb 25, 2013: The latest Andrew Symonds controversy is starting to fade but Robert Craddock, writing in the Courier-Mail , says the scars will linger for many years.

Australian cricket

Southern hemisphere’s MCC under old attack

Feb 25, 2013: The other MCC – the Melbourne Cricket Club – is facing some of the same accusations the Marylebone Cricket Club has had to deal with during its long history

Twenty20 World Cup 2009

Rubbish Pakistan make England look good

Feb 25, 2013: It is hard to pinpoint where Pakistan lost this match, as they lost it almost everywhere and every which way they turned

Saad Shafqat

Great with the ball, not quite with the mike

Feb 25, 2013: It would be pleasing and fitting if Akram’s commentary career carried some of the same zest and punch as his cricket career

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Women in shorts, in the pavilion

Feb 25, 2013: In the Observer , Will Buckley goes behind the scenes at the MCC at Lord's on the opening day of the World Twenty20.

Security concerns

Terrorising cricket

Feb 25, 2013: In taking the World Cup away from Pakistan, the ICC suggests that terrorism is limited to Pakistan, which is untrue because incidents show that risks are prevalent to varying degrees in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh

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Cricket's continuing evolution

Feb 25, 2013: Tony Cozier, writing in the Stabroek News , while acknowledging that Twenty20 cricket remains the game of the present, says Test cricket's continued survival despite competition from different versions of the sport is an achievement in itself.

Zimbabwe cricket

Zimbabwe on the backfoot

Feb 25, 2013: Siddhartha Mishra, in his article in the Indian Express , tries to examine some of the reasons why Zimbabwe, who lit up the previous World Twenty20 with a shock win over Australia, find themselves in oblivion two years hence.

Indian cricket

A rare Indian double international

Feb 25, 2013: Partab Ramchand, in the Indian Express , profiles the late MJ Gopalan , one of India's few double internationals, on his hundredth birth anniversary

Indian Cricket League

Back in the fold

Feb 25, 2013: The ICL has lost a huge number of players after the BCCI announced it's decision to award amnesty to those who has signed up with the league

New Zealand cricket

FTP changes could harm New Zealand

Feb 25, 2013: The ICC will meet to discuss the Future Tours Programme next week and serious noises are being made that the top four want to play each other more often, which means the rest could be sidelined in the new programme, writes Dylan Cleaver in the

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Much to celebrate in Twenty20

Feb 25, 2013: Neil Manthorp, writing on the Supersport website, says the cricketing public in England has taken to the World Twenty20 quite well, despite the frustrating weather and the home team's dismal loss in the tournament opener.