Ghosting could come back to haunt players

Feb 25, 2013: Here’s an unusual piece from The Sunday Telegraph , but one which is well worth a read

Fifth Test, Sydney

An eye for cricket

Feb 25, 2013: How much has it enhanced our appreciation of these two giants of the game that we have been able to study them through television and its evolving technologies?

Touring

Gentlemen and Players

Feb 25, 2013: Free Foresters represent a love of cricket strong enough to travel long distances at considerable expense to unfamiliar grounds and an uncertain welcome; what do the rich and pampered England cricket team represent?

Pakistan cricket

The latest twist in Shoaib soap

Feb 25, 2013: Shoaib Akhtar's ommission from the Pakistan squad to tour South Africa is just another twist in the saga that is his career

Kenya

Tikolo awarded in honours list

Feb 25, 2013: Tom Tikolo, elder brother of Steve and the former Kenya captain, has been awarded the Head of State’s Commendation (HSC Civilian Division) in the President’s Jamhuri day honours list

New Zealand cricket

Century maker learns a lesson

Feb 25, 2013: Ross Taylor, the promising young New Zealand batsman who scored his maiden one-day hundred in just his third match, ended up in hospital attached to a saline drip and unable to celebrate his milestone

UAE

Junior tournament in Abu Dhabi

Feb 25, 2013: The former Sri Lanka batsman, Aravinda De Silva, is the star guest to open next month's junior tournament in Abu Dhabi

Kenya

Review of Kenya in 2006

Feb 25, 2013: Nick Deverell provides an excellent, comprehensive timeline and round-up of Kenya's year in 2006 over at Cricket Europe

Pace attack

Shoaib's New Year curse

Feb 25, 2013: The first major controversy of Shoaib Akhtar's career was at its height over a New Year period

How to level the playing field

Feb 25, 2013: Australia are once again moving away from the pack in international cricket and John Buchanan, the coach, has said it is down to the rest to catch up

Ashes

Warne continues to fill the pages

Feb 25, 2013: The Australian press is revelling in the team's Ashes dominance and plenty of space is being devoted to Shane Warne, who signed off his final MCG Test with a man-of-the-match award for his seven wickets

Ashes

Whitewash looms

Feb 25, 2013: After a fourth consecutive hammering, the English press are gearing up for an Ashes whitewash and talk as one about how the tour continues to lurch from one disaster to another

Fourth Test, Melbourne

Rudiwatch continued

Feb 25, 2013: I wasn't in a position to see a replay of Rudi Koertzen's refusal of the lbw appeal against Alistair Cook, so suspended judgement, and have only just caught up with it

Action: fourth Test

Were England spineless?

Feb 25, 2013: There's an adjective we'll be seeing a lot of in the next day or two: spineless

USA

What has everyone got to hide?

Feb 25, 2013: There is widespread confusion in US cricket circles over the almost secret marketing deal reportedly agreed last October between the USA Cricket Association and a company called Centrex

Andrew Miller on England in Australia, 2006-07

Monty's magnificent hirsuteness

Feb 25, 2013: Since his eight-wicket heroics at the WACA, Monty Panesar has not enjoyed the best of weeks

Fourth Test, Melbourne

Legend status

Feb 25, 2013: There have been a few legends involved in this game, but only two 'Legends'

Fourth Test, Melbourne

The Best-Laid Plans

Feb 25, 2013: "I just close my eyes and whang it down anyway, so there's not much planning there." Thus Matthew Hoggard, bringing the house down at his press conference last night, in response to the mysterious straying of England’s bowling plan

Fourth Test, Melbourne

Rudiwatch

Feb 25, 2013: Ho-hum.

Nepal

Same old, same old for Nepal

Feb 25, 2013: Nepalcricket.com have a good, if dispiriting, round-up of Nepal's last year in cricket