USA

USA looks to the next generation

Feb 25, 2013: More than 200 cricketers from all across North America, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are converging on Cupertino in the Bay Area for the largest cricket tournament to be staged on North American soil

Essex

Like an empty vase

Feb 25, 2013: The importance of Andy Flower to Essex can be truly appreciated only now he has gone

Worcestershire

Jaques returns home

Feb 25, 2013: Worcestershire's Australian opening batsman Phil Jaques will miss the first four games of the Twenty20 Cup after returning home for "family reasons''.

The man who should have been king

Feb 25, 2013: Adam Hollioake led a star-deprived, profoundly maverick but one-for-all XI to victory in the 1997-98 Champions Trophy, the only one-day pot England have won in a tournament featuring more than three sides

English cricket

Bad behaviour highlights loss of silent witness

Feb 25, 2013: The Daily Telegraph's Michael Henderson, who had a pop at crowd behaviour at Old Trafford last week, widens his brief and lambastes the way that crowds approach cricket-watching

Looking forward to some Twenty20 action

Feb 25, 2013: Chris Gayle

MCC

Table cricket final at Lord's

Feb 25, 2013: MCC will host the National Table Cricket Finals in the indoor school at Lord

From Stan to Ollie

Feb 25, 2013: The first time I saw him bat for England, I saw Stan Laurel in him,­ the same rebellious tufts of hair, the same vaguely bemused expression, the same understated command of his craft

English cricket

A series best forgotten

Feb 25, 2013: Although England completed a 3-0 rout of West Indies at Chester-le-Street, the reaction in the media in the UK has been low-key, perhaps a reflection on the weakness of the tourists and an acceptance that India will be a completely different

Ireland

Irish game on a sticky wicket

Feb 25, 2013: In The Daily Telegraph Tony Francis travels to Ireland to see if the World Cup was a flash in the pan or something more significant

Kenya

Kenya awards players central contracts

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya is on the verge of offering its leading players one-year contracts.

Indian cricket

A difficult phase for Indian cricket

Feb 25, 2013: The Times of India reports of a two-page letter written by the BCCI to the members of the touring party to Ireland and England

Irish cricket

Irish game on a sticky wicket

Feb 25, 2013: In The Daily Telegraph Tony Francis travels to Ireland to see if the World Cup was a flash in the pan or something more significant

Australian cricket

Australians back more drug testing

Feb 25, 2013: Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun about Australia’s players, including Shane Watson, supporting more drug testing measures

The Bob Marley Test

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket with an uninspiring West Indies is akin to soccer blighted by a charmless, defensive-minded Brazil – a sport incapable of fulfilling its potential

Glamorgan

Powell out for a fortnight

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Powell will have surgery to remove part of a bone which has caused a blood clot under his collarbone

Worcestershire

Worcestershire's Kervezee reprimanded

Feb 25, 2013: Alexei Kervezee, the Worcestershire and Netherlands batsman, has been reprimanded under the ECB's discipline code following an incident during Worcestershire

Kenya

Kenya to host India and Twenty20s

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya has confirmed that India A will tour Kenya in late July or early August to play two four-day matches as well as taking part in a one-day series which will involve at least one other country's A team.

Indian cricket

A much-improved Panesar regales, observes Kartik

Feb 25, 2013: Murali Kartik, plying his trade for Middlesex this season, tells The Indian Express that Monty Panesar's ability to the English audience spellbound has been very special, and that the chats they've had have been centered around spin bowling

The downside of heroism

Feb 25, 2013: Had it not been for the torpor and ennui instigated by May and Cowdrey in 1957, it is tempting to wonder whether the clamour for the limited-overs revolution would have been so fervent