Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in England, 2007

The good old days

Feb 25, 2013: Look around county grounds and you’re likely to see middle-aged, old and wary spectators who are thoroughly immersed in the cricket

Spinners

Saqlain's conversion of convenience

Feb 25, 2013: For Saqlain was once a spinner who held the world in his mesmeric grip

Indian cricket

Last chance for India's golden generation

Feb 25, 2013: India's tour of England will provide the final opportunity for many of their stars to finally achieve a Test series win in England, writes Angus Fraser in The Independent .

Worcestershire

Worcestershire's weather woes continue with washout

Feb 25, 2013: Worcestershire

Derbyshire

Borrington joins Derbyshire committee

Feb 25, 2013: Tony Borrington, the former Derbyshire batsman, has been co-opted onto Derbyshire

Canada

Player smashes 304 in domestic 50-over match

Feb 25, 2013: By Eddie Norfolk

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in England, 2007

An encounter with Joe Hussain

Feb 25, 2013: Joe came to England first in 1963 and admits the first 15 years were spent in dilemma, with regard to which team to support.

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in England, 2007

Random spottings at Chelmsford

Feb 25, 2013: Ronnie Irani, the recently retired Essex captain, talking loudly on his mobile and after a point is not able to decide whether to get into his car or just stay out

Durham

Durham alter dates

Feb 25, 2013: Durham's Championship match against Surrey at Chester-le-Street has been scheduled to start a day earlier than advertised due to Durham's involvement in the Friends Provident Trophy Final on August 18.

Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands get some games

Feb 25, 2013: The Falkland Islands were granted affiliate member status by the ICC on June 29, along with Cameroon, Peru and Swaziland

Will Luke at the Quadrangular Series, Ireland, 2007

The locals of Clontarf

Feb 25, 2013: Irish cricket really is a family affair

Kenya

Nairobi dispute echoes back to the dark days

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya has postponed the board elections for a second time following a decision by the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association on Saturday to appoint a nine-man committee to look into a new constitution.

Where have all the fast bowlers gone?

Feb 25, 2013:

Indian cricket

Born-again Ganguly still out to lord it over England

Feb 25, 2013: "The most memorable image of perhaps the most brilliant era of Indian cricket," says Rahul Bhattacharya in The Guardian , "is of a half-naked man on a handsome terracotta balcony

English cricket

Pietersen calls for end to non-stop itinerary

Feb 25, 2013: Yanked from pillar to post by their ludicrous itinerary, England's cricketers are playing from memory, on auto pilot, rather than with real zest and focus, writes Simon Hughes in The Telegraph .

Pakistan cricket

Saqlain Mushtaq hopes to play again

Feb 25, 2013: Saqlain Mushtaq was once Pakistan's first-choice spinner

Will Luke at the Quadrangular Series, Ireland, 2007

Scoreboardless at Stormont

Feb 25, 2013: Much of the first 94 overs we witnessed on Wednesday were humdrum

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in England, 2007

'Mind the gap'

Feb 25, 2013: Another of Mikes’s sayings comes to mind: "Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game." The Indians, though, it’s often said, think cricket is the only game

Will Luke at the Quadrangular Series, Ireland, 2007

Gally and Channerpor

Feb 25, 2013: If I had any doubts lingering that I was in Ireland (or that I have Irish blood by my maternal Grandmother), then they have all disappeared now

English cricket

Cricket slips off the English radar

Feb 25, 2013: It was, by any stretch of the imagination, a monstrous weekend for British sport - the Wimbledon men's final, the Silverstone Grand Prix, the start of the Tour de France