Indian cricket

Able but unreachable

Feb 25, 2013: The Indian team management's SOS call to Ranadeb Bose, Arjun Yadav, Ishant Sharma and Rakesh Patel is not the first such instance of players being drafted in the last minute in an emergency during an England tour

Zimbabwe cricket

British government must back Zimbabwe boycott

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in The Daily Telegraph , Kate Hoey, the former Sports Minister, demands that her successor, Richard Caborn, takes the same stance that the Australian government recently took, and demands a boycott of Zimbabwean cricket.

West Indies cricket

Excellence suffers in lurid pursuit of money

Feb 25, 2013: In a typically impassioned article, the chief sports writer of The Times , Simon Barnes, hits out at sport's current obsession with money over excellence, citing the West Indies' miserable tour as a prime example.

USA

The last last-chance saloon

Feb 25, 2013: The cricket world - or at least those running the game in countries from Australia to Zambia - assemble in London this week for their annual get-together

Andrew McGlashan on India and South Africa in Ireland, 2007

The Irish connection

Feb 25, 2013: The links between Ireland and South Africa go back a long way

Ireland

Bray highlights issues facing Associate players

Feb 25, 2013: Jeremy Bray, Ireland's opening batsman, has branded the Irish Cricket Union's efforts at turning the game professional 'a joke'

Canada

Guyana play Guyanese… in Canada

Feb 25, 2013: Guyan visited Scarborough, in Ontario, last Sunday to play a team of Canadian Guyanese in the Celebrity Cricket match

Hong Kong

Hong Kong win historic encounter

Feb 25, 2013: The Hong Kong women's team scored an emphatic ten-wicket victory over China in an historic match played at the Shenzhen University Stadium

Andrew McGlashan on India and South Africa in Ireland, 2007

Notes from the Emerald Isle

Feb 25, 2013: Scores level

Indian cricket

Can Rahul Dravid inspire more away success?

Feb 25, 2013: Familiar themes recur as India prepare to take on England in England: opening conundrums, lack of pace, general travel-sickness and pondering over the form of Sachin Tendulkar

Irish cricket

Sunny days aren't here again

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland were, in many ways, the story of the World Cup

Pakistan cricket

The last moments of this man's life

Feb 25, 2013: Bob Woolmer's death sparked off a storm of speculation and rumour unlike any seen in cricket before

We wanted to finish it in 20 overs

Feb 25, 2013: Denesh Ramdin

Why Twenty20 vision is impaired

Feb 25, 2013: Much as I’d love to see such games played over two innings per side – cricket without second chances is like a BLT sandwich without the B - I have few quibbles with the philosophy or the format

Scotland

Lack of cash could lead to Scottish decline

Feb 25, 2013: Scotland's World Cup cricket captain, Craig Wright, has voiced his fear that the sport has hit a "glass ceiling" in his homeland and that, barring some significant new investment for the leading players, he could foresee the Scots starting to slip

English cricket

Collingwood embarks on a long road

Feb 25, 2013: England begin rebuilding their ODI side from scratch

Saluting the equivocal Englishmen

Feb 25, 2013: One is generally regarded as a byword for nerdiness and prima donnaesque truculence, the other as the flat-track bully who couldn’t stop Australians kicking sand in his face, the underachievers’ underachiever

Yorkshire

Yorkshire launch Trueman statue appeal

Feb 25, 2013: An appeal is to be launched to fund the erection of a statue of Fred Trueman

Ireland

Johnston rallies his troops

Feb 25, 2013: Trent Johnston, Ireland's captain, has challenged his young squad to produce the goods against the might of India who they face in a one-dayer on Saturday at Stormont, Belfast

Twenty20

Twenty20 selling tickets, but not the game's soul

Feb 25, 2013: Patrick Kidd in The Times writes that the Twenty20 Cup, which starts today, has grown from a gimmick into a fully-fledged and respected competition.