Indian Premier League

What's to love about the IPL?

Feb 25, 2013: In her blog Free Hit for India Today , Sharda Ugra lists out five things to like about the IPL, ranging from Shane Warne's curious tactics to 'Buddy Talk'

West Indies in England 2009

Journeymen put England on brink of victory

Feb 25, 2013: The first day at Lord’s witnessed the arrival of a special talent; now it was the turn of the journeymen, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

English cricket

Headingley's decorous heritage

Feb 25, 2013: The Western Terrace at Headingley was far from the Viking-helmeted, gorilla-suited, false-breasted transvestite Bacchanal it is today, writes Harry Pearson in the Guardian .

Kenya

Kenya dismiss Under-19 criticism

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya has dismissed criticism in some sections of the media following the poor performance of the Under-19 side in the recently concluded Africa Championship

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea appoint general manager

Feb 25, 2013: The ICC’s East Asia Pacific arm have appointed the Australian Bill Leane as Papua New Guinea’s general manager

Indian Premier League

Bored with IPL? Maybe Modi should call Time

Feb 25, 2013: The IPL has seen an excess of everything and it's no wonder that many South Africans haven't taken to it

England cricket

Could broadcasters start picking teams?

Feb 25, 2013: Just how far the ECB is prepared to bend over to earn an extra buck - and it would probably win many limbo competitions – might be gauged by its reaction to ESPN-Star’s reported multi-million dollar bid for rights to cover the planned new domestic

Batting

The great Test batsmen - a look across 132 years

Feb 25, 2013: This is one of the most awaited analyses and has been in the pipeline for long

Indian Premier League

Look beyond the stars

Feb 25, 2013: Expensive investments don't always turn out right in cricket, as the IPL has demonstrated

Empowered young names are winning games

Feb 25, 2013: with one quality bowler (rp singh), another untested at this level (ryan harris) and absolutely nothing else to write home about, the deccan chargers defended a fairly ordinary score on a good batting wicket against the mumbai indians who are fast

West Indies in England 2009

Cool, calm Bopara has arrived

Feb 25, 2013: Ravi Bopara's century in the opening day at Lord's overcame the shortcomings of those who competed for the No.3 spot with him, writes Vic Marks in the Guardian

Australian cricket

Veteran Ponting a Twenty20 greenhorn

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Stevenson, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , says Ricky Ponting remains something of a boy in short pants at Twenty20 cricket

Indian cricket

Searching for Sachin

Feb 25, 2013:

West Indies in England, 2009

KP will bounce back. He has to...

Feb 25, 2013:

Australian cricket

Spin summit for Australians

Feb 25, 2013: Australia haven’t had a match-winning spinner since Shane Warne hung up his boots after the last Ashes series and the situation is serious enough to warrant calling a ‘spin summit’ next month to discuss the issue

IPL

Short-lived break in batting dominance

Feb 25, 2013: From John Van Der Westhuizen, South Africa Recently I harped on about how poorly batsmen had been dealing with overs 11 and 12 after the tactical break

Kuwait

Kuwait look to attract women players

Feb 25, 2013: Kuwait Cricket is aiming to attract more women cricketers and is holding selection trials at Kuwait Entertainment City cricket ground on May 9 starting at 7.00am

Who should have been the player of the match?

Feb 25, 2013: today's blog is the story of two performances; both outstanding, both deserving of much credit but creating a vastly different impact on the match

English cricket

Does England's contracts system need an overhaul?

Feb 25, 2013: Centrally-contracted players or free-agents

English cricket

Flintoff's loss poses question of balance for England

Feb 25, 2013: The lack of a real allrounder exposes the shallowness of Andrew Strauss's side's batting, writes Duncan Fletcher in the Guardian .