Indian cricket

Chandigarh gets a fresh lease of cricketing life, courtesy HCA

Feb 25, 2013: After 14 years, Chandigarh's Sector-16 Stadium is likely to host its first one-day international when Australia tour India for a seven-match series later this year

English cricket

Botham spirit alive and well in Durham

Feb 25, 2013:

Bob Woolmer

Behind the headlines

Feb 25, 2013:

Indian cricket

Bedi arm-balls Gavaskar

Feb 25, 2013: "Gavaskar's bete noire Bishan Singh Bedi says the 58-year-old wants to be the ultimate god of Indian cricket, thinks of himself as bigger than the game," writes G Rajaraman in scathing piece at OutlookIndia .

English cricket

The wild knight

Feb 25, 2013: David Gower pays tribute to his team-mate Sir Ian Botham in The Sunday Times .

New Zealand cricket

Who's next in line?

Feb 25, 2013: Hamish Marshall has become the first New Zealand player to turn his back on a national contract

Geared up to play hard cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Coming out of the last Test match at Old Trafford, although we lost, there were a lot of positives that we could take from that match

Kenya

Kenyan board suspends Centrals province

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya (CK) has suspended its Central province ahead of next month's board elections.

West Indies cricket

Nation on Film: West Indies 1976 tour of England

Feb 25, 2013: A Nation on Film special on the BBC (UK) aired this evening, looking back at West Indies' tour of England in 1976.

Ireland

Ireland announce depleted ODI squad

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland have announced a severely depleted 13-man squad for their one-dayers against India and South Africa due to get under way on June 23

Stats

The Bell Curve?

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in The Guardian , Ian Bell stumbles across a statistic:

Indian cricket

Professionals don't need to warm-up

Feb 25, 2013: While commenting on the Ford fiasco , Harsha Bhogle also brings up other concerns in his column in the Indian Express .

Commentary

The Full Monty

Feb 25, 2013: Sport may be trivial, however it doesn't mean we have to trivialise people's names, be it Mudhsuden or Sonny, Femi or Muhammad, writes Fazeer Mohammed in The Trinidad Express

Bad weather looms over Chester-le-Street

Feb 25, 2013: Chris Gayle

Hampshire

Hampshire put semi-final tickets on sale

Feb 25, 2013: Hampshire have announced that tickets are on sale for their Friends Provident semi-final against Warwickshire on June 20.

Lancashire

Narcissism or simply fun?

Feb 25, 2013: Michael Henderson, writing in The Daily Telegraph , has slammed spectators at Old Trafford for their behaviour during the recent Test.

English cricket

Narcissism or simply fun?

Feb 25, 2013: Michael Henderson, writing in The Daily Telegraph , has slammed spectators at Old Trafford for their behaviour during the recent Test.

Indian Cricket

A calendar of coaches

Feb 25, 2013: 'Manager' seems the right title for Borde's likely duties: reminiscing with old men in MCC ties, visiting the Indian High Commission, telling his lads that they were lucky they weren't up against Truman, Tyson, Statham and Loader, being benevolent

Bob Woolmer

Questions remain over match-fixing

Feb 25, 2013: Bob Woolmer’s death might now have been declared the result of natural causes but that should not be used by the ICC as proof positive there is no match-fixing in cricket, according to an editorial in The New Zealand Herald .

Middlesex

Nash replaced by ... Nash

Feb 25, 2013: There was confusion at Lord