World Cup 2007

Waugh words give Hodge hope

Feb 25, 2013: Brad Hodge speaks in the Herald Sun about how a chat with Steve Waugh lifted him ahead of his first World Cup.

World Cup 2007

Road to Jamaica 4: Q&A with Bob Woolmer

Feb 25, 2013: On the eve of Pakistan's first warm-up match, I put a few questions to Bob

World Cup

Dramatis Personae: Australia

Feb 25, 2013: A year or so ago, Ponting began to make pious noises about Australians setting standards of good behaviour on the field

World Cup 2007

South Africa try to lose choker tag

Feb 25, 2013: Mickey Arthur, the coach, laughs off Shane Warne’s comments about South Africa being chokers, but Allan Donald says he’s worried about his team in the crucial moments.

Charlotte Edwards on England Women in India, 2006-07

Karaoke and a rather sumptious steak

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Much hard work to be done

Feb 25, 2013: Ramnaresh Sarwan

Kenya

Tikolo: "We don't just want to make up numbers"

Feb 25, 2013: Chloe Saltau speaks to Tom Tikolo, the Kenya captain, in today's Age in Australia.

English cricket

Harmison rises from the Ashes

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English cricket

'Nudger' rises from the Ashes

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The power and the glory

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Australia spring a leak

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World Cup 2007

Most open tournament yet held

Feb 25, 2013: In a tightly bunched field Ian Chappell favours Australia, New Zealand, West Indies and India to scramble into the final four

Cricket & the Media

Cricket as news and cricket as commerce

Feb 25, 2013: It's getting harder, while covering entertainment and sport, to draw a line between news manufactured by sponsors and ‘real’ news

World Cup 2007

Plane crashes near Australia training session

Feb 25, 2013: A small plane has crashed 200 metres from where Australia were training at the Arnos Vale sports ground in St Vincent on Saturday.

Scotland

Scotland lose warm-up to the warm-ups

Feb 25, 2013: Scotland have lost their warm-up game against a Barbados Select XI in a warm-up to the World Cup warm-ups next week

Indian cricket

Do Indians love cricket?

Feb 25, 2013: 'Our love for the game is deep and passionate

World Cup 2007

England must play power game

Feb 25, 2013: Derek Pringle, writing in the Telegraph , believes that with so many new stadiums and pitches in the Caribbean, bottom-handed batsmen and quick thinkers can prosper.

USA

USA suspended again

Feb 25, 2013: It comes as no surprise that the USACA were today suspended by the ICC for failing to meet the agreed deadlines

South African cricket

Protean pit-falls

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Bangladesh cricket

Nafees strikes confident note

Feb 25, 2013: Nabila Ahmed, writing in The Age , Melbourne, profiles Shahriar Nafees, the son of a freedom fighter who defended Bangladesh in its bloody war of independence against in 1971.