Australian cricket

Theatre goers set for a ball with Shane Warne musical

Feb 25, 2013: Shane Warne: The Musical is set to roll out in Australia next year, according to a report on the News.com.au website.

Symonds up for Murali challenge

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Symonds tells the Australian that he's up for the challenge of facing his old friend and rival, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Essex

Westfield signs two-year contract

Feb 25, 2013: Essex fast bowler Mervyn Westfield has signed a new two-year contract up to the end of the 2009 season.

Australian cricket

Hogg and MacGill battle it out

Feb 25, 2013: Australia named their squad for the first Test on Thursday – and included 13 players who are in line to take on Sri Lanka

Bermuda

Lionel Cann sent home in disgrace

Feb 25, 2013: Bermuda batsman Lionel Cann has been sent home from the tour of Africa and the Middle East after the Bermuda Cricket Board chose to increase his suspension for showing dissent when he was given out lbw against Kenya on Saturday.

Dunkin’ Duncan

Feb 25, 2013: Here was the perfect subject: a scorned public figure with a year’s salary and a hefty publisher’s advance in his pocket, nothing to lose and an axe or 50 to grind.

Kenya

Ghai's shadow continues to hang over Kenyan cricket

Feb 25, 2013: The talk of Sharad Ghai’s comeback continues even though publicly he continues to deny such reports

English cricket

Duncan Fletcher's book reopens old wounds

Feb 25, 2013:

Surrey

Schofield gears up for winter

Feb 25, 2013: A fantastic summer for Chris Schofield culminated in selection for England's ICC World Twenty20 campaign and more recently a place on the ECB Academy

Australian cricket

Warne: Go after Murali

Feb 25, 2013: Shane Warne, writing for Fox Sports , explains the best way to play Murali and says he wants to see aggression from Australia in their forthcoming two-Test series against Sri Lanka:

Commentary

Sport’s other language

Feb 25, 2013: "Three key points of aggression in sport are: is it instinctive or conditioned

Pre season

A season in the life

Feb 25, 2013: With the selection process being the way it is, one outstanding season is now enough to pitchfork a player into the big league

Indian cricket

Being Rahul Dravid

Feb 25, 2013: The perception that far too much of Indian cricket is about the individual has been proved again by Rahul Dravid's dropping

Stats

Done in by the Nelson

Feb 25, 2013: Western Province lost wickets on 111, 222 and 333 in the second innings of their South African Airways Provincial Three-Day Challenge match against KwaZulu-Natal in Cape Town last weekend

Indian cricket

Truth, exclusives and the survival game

Feb 25, 2013: In these times of celebrity journalism, exclusive stories and the need to give more than the competitors, the job of a reporter is not to be envied, writes Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times

Australian cricket

MacGill casting a hefty shadow

Feb 25, 2013: In the Sydney Morning Herald , Andrew Webster ponders whether after all those years in Shane Warne's shadow Stuart MacGill is now casting a somewhat larger shadow of his own.

Kuwait

Mali to visit Kuwait

Feb 25, 2013: Ray Mali, the acting president of the ICC, is to visit Kuwait to watch the semi-finals and final of the inaugural Asian Cricket Council Twenty20 Cup

Minor Counties

Udal signs for Berkshire

Feb 25, 2013: Shaun Udal, the former England and Hampshire off-spinner, has signed for Berkshire CCC to replace Aftab Habib who, last week, was named the new coach of Hong Kong .

Australian cricket

Fear not, cricket widows

Feb 25, 2013:

Indian cricket

'Rest' assured for Rahul Dravid

Feb 25, 2013: Sandipan Deb examines why Rahul Dravid gave up the job of India captain and hopes Dravid's enforced absence from the side will help him get back to his best