Cricinfo

Ashes to Zombies and eyerything in between

Feb 25, 2013: 2006 was another year filled with excitement, intrigue, controversy and records in international cricket

Australian cricket

Tests killed by marketing's clamour

Feb 25, 2013: John Coomber in The New Zealand Herald notes that Australian cricket’s marketing men risk destroying Test cricket because of their ignorance of the basic product

Fiji

Concern over state of Albert Park

Feb 25, 2013: The Fiji Times has a disturbing report on the poor state of Albert Park in Suva, the capital of the country

Action: fifth Test

Thx Fred

Feb 25, 2013: The pattern of a long series is seldom uniform – men who make double hundreds at the start often find ducks waiting for them at the end

English cricket

Monty: the epitome of enthusiasm

Feb 25, 2013:

Bermuda

Bermuda prepare for World Cricket League in Trinidad

Feb 25, 2013: Bermuda are in Trinidad to prepare for the World Cricket League which gets underway at the end of this month

Canada

Bonus incentive for Canada

Feb 25, 2013: Should Canada reach the final of the World Cricket League - to be held in Nairobi at the end of this month - thus qualifying them for the Twenty 20 World Cup in September, each player will receive a bonus of USD$5,000

Cricinfo

Twelve from '06

Feb 25, 2013: It's that time of the year again and we at Cricinfo undertook an exercise to pick the Test team of the year

Andrew Miller on England in Australia, 2006-07

Cakes, texts and tenors

Feb 25, 2013: In the otherwise venerable SCG museum, there is one hideously mawkish souvenir - a commemorative red hankie, one of several thousand handed out by the Sydney Daily Telegraph on the occasion of Steve Waugh's retirement in January 2004

Indian cricket

Who is responsible for Irfan’s plight?

Feb 25, 2013: Sunil Gavaskar, in his column, tries to investigate the reasons behind Irfan Pathan's spectacular decline as a Test bowler since his hat-trick at Karachi earlier this year

Fifth Test, Sydney

Postcards from the SCG

Feb 25, 2013: They never keep tracks of the stats that matter.

Bermuda

Leverock named sports personality of the year

Feb 25, 2013: Dwayne Leverock, Bermuda’s supersized spinner, and Teresa Perozzi - the boxer who defended her world title twice while running a business and raising her son - are the Bermuda Sun's sports personalities of the year for 2006.

Umpires

Dinner with Billy Bowden

Feb 25, 2013: Billy Bowden is well known for his umpiring idiosyncracies

Australian cricket

Langer a fighter on and off the field

Feb 25, 2013:

Somerset

Langer to lead Somerset

Feb 25, 2013: Somerset have confirmed that Justin Langer, who is retiring from Test cricket after the final Ashes Test at Sydney, will be their captain for the 2007 season

Planning

Some New Year resolutions

Feb 25, 2013: Got your New Year resolutions sorted

Ghosting could come back to haunt players

Feb 25, 2013: Here’s an unusual piece from The Sunday Telegraph , but one which is well worth a read

Fifth Test, Sydney

An eye for cricket

Feb 25, 2013: How much has it enhanced our appreciation of these two giants of the game that we have been able to study them through television and its evolving technologies?

Touring

Gentlemen and Players

Feb 25, 2013: Free Foresters represent a love of cricket strong enough to travel long distances at considerable expense to unfamiliar grounds and an uncertain welcome; what do the rich and pampered England cricket team represent?

Pakistan cricket

The latest twist in Shoaib soap

Feb 25, 2013: Shoaib Akhtar's ommission from the Pakistan squad to tour South Africa is just another twist in the saga that is his career