Action: fifth Test

Where is Australia's fortress?

Feb 25, 2013: At the start of this series, there was much talk about Brisbane being Australia's fortress

Indian cricket

What abiding faith in a few good men can do

Feb 25, 2013: To keep faith in Sehwag ahead of the World Cup was a team priority," writes R Mohan in the Deccan Chronicle

South African cricket

'There’s more conviction in my decision making’

Feb 25, 2013: Graeme Smith speaks to the Telegraph 's Lokendra Pratap Sahi just a few weeks before completing four years as South Africa’s captain:

Ashes

Keep the urn, but they can have Branson

Feb 25, 2013: Richard Branson, a man who has never knowingly missed an opportunity to self-publicise, stepped up and announced that the Ashes should stay in Australia

Reviews

Not a lot to shout about

Feb 25, 2013: My lasting memory of 2006 will be who's-turn-is-it next - otherwise known as opening the batting for New Zealand in Test cricket

Reviews

The best, the worst, the Warne-derful

Feb 25, 2013: Some more of 2006 before 2007 takes over: Here's Cricinfo's list of everything notable on and off the field last year

Fifth Test, Sydney

No Harm done

Feb 25, 2013: A fast bowler of enormous gifts, but a cricketer who makes Martin McCague look like a lionheart.

Ashes

An old wives' tale

Feb 25, 2013: There have been some suggestions that England’s poor form this series is somehow related to having the WAGs on tour

Fifth Test, Sydney

A burning sensation

Feb 25, 2013: ‘Awwwww, everyone else’s got a trophy

A man who needs no introduction

Feb 25, 2013: It was hard to imagine Johnny Carson without Ed McMahon’s preamble: ‘And now, heeeeere’s Johnny.’ But does the world’s greatest Test wicket-taker really need an introduction as elaborate as he received today

Cricinfo

Ashes to Zombies and eyerything in between

Feb 25, 2013: 2006 was another year filled with excitement, intrigue, controversy and records in international cricket

Australian cricket

Tests killed by marketing's clamour

Feb 25, 2013: John Coomber in The New Zealand Herald notes that Australian cricket’s marketing men risk destroying Test cricket because of their ignorance of the basic product

Fiji

Concern over state of Albert Park

Feb 25, 2013: The Fiji Times has a disturbing report on the poor state of Albert Park in Suva, the capital of the country

Action: fifth Test

Thx Fred

Feb 25, 2013: The pattern of a long series is seldom uniform – men who make double hundreds at the start often find ducks waiting for them at the end

English cricket

Monty: the epitome of enthusiasm

Feb 25, 2013:

Bermuda

Bermuda prepare for World Cricket League in Trinidad

Feb 25, 2013: Bermuda are in Trinidad to prepare for the World Cricket League which gets underway at the end of this month

Canada

Bonus incentive for Canada

Feb 25, 2013: Should Canada reach the final of the World Cricket League - to be held in Nairobi at the end of this month - thus qualifying them for the Twenty 20 World Cup in September, each player will receive a bonus of USD$5,000

Cricinfo

Twelve from '06

Feb 25, 2013: It's that time of the year again and we at Cricinfo undertook an exercise to pick the Test team of the year

Andrew Miller on England in Australia, 2006-07

Cakes, texts and tenors

Feb 25, 2013: In the otherwise venerable SCG museum, there is one hideously mawkish souvenir - a commemorative red hankie, one of several thousand handed out by the Sydney Daily Telegraph on the occasion of Steve Waugh's retirement in January 2004

Indian cricket

Who is responsible for Irfan’s plight?

Feb 25, 2013: Sunil Gavaskar, in his column, tries to investigate the reasons behind Irfan Pathan's spectacular decline as a Test bowler since his hat-trick at Karachi earlier this year