Touring

A little DIY

Feb 25, 2013: For a weekend cricketer, a spectacle like Steve Harmison’s travails on the first day at Gabba is always poignant

Ashes

Wild night for the Aussies? Hardly

Feb 25, 2013: Brett Lee lifts the lid on Australia’s subdued celebrations after the first Test in his News Ltd column.

Middle order

Yousuf's humility deserves the record

Feb 25, 2013: Forty-seven runs separate MohammadYousuf from the top spot, an unlikely opportunity for a man once known for his lazy elegance

Ashes

You vill obey ze laws of cricket

Feb 25, 2013: The policing of the first Test at Brisbane was widely condemned by many of those who attended as being overzealous and petty – Cricinfo received many complaints from spectators

Ashes

Mahmood's abuse

Feb 25, 2013: Nearly all the players in the England squad have columns (or blogs, or video diaries) with various media outlets

Indian Cricket

Fatal flaws at the death

Feb 25, 2013: India's bowlers have often been expensive at the slog and they have neither a good yorker or a slower ball to control the run-rate

The worst pitch I have seen

Feb 25, 2013: Chris Gayle

Indian cricket

The Sehwag conundrum

Feb 25, 2013: Virender Sehwag continues to confound the pundits and frustrate the layman by flitting between the ordinary and the unacceptable, writes R Kaushik in the Deccan Herald .

Indian Cricket

More than a replacement

Feb 25, 2013: Sambit Bal

What times! What habits!

Feb 25, 2013: Australian cricketers are abjectly inoffensive according to a questionaire which includes, among several things, the bad habits of first-class cricketers

Ashes

Australia's cause for concern

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck says in the Sydney Morning Herald Australia, who won the first Test in Brisbane easily, have some problems too .

Captaincy

Flintoff's role needs rethinking

Feb 25, 2013: England didn’t deserve to escape from the Gabba with a draw, and when Kevin Pietersen departed in the first over, the last faint hope went with him

Television

The day the sky fell in

Feb 25, 2013: Sky Sports is generally reckoned to have done a decent job replacing Channel 4 in covering the cricket in England in 2006

First Test, Brisbane

It never rains...

Feb 25, 2013: Rain here was always a phantom of English, and cricketing, imagination

Dileep Premachandran on India in South Africa 2006-07

Remembering Dolly

Feb 25, 2013:

Action

Age-old duel resumes: England v Warne

Feb 25, 2013: Today, for the first time, these two teams looked well-matched

Australian cricket

Simply marvellous

Feb 25, 2013: Fantastic news for fans of the highly irreverent 12th Man CDs – and that includes most of the editorial team – comes with the release this week of the seventh offering – and the first for five years - from Billy Bimingham

The scientific cricketer

The science behind Ponting's decision

Feb 25, 2013:

Ashes

Practice makes perfect...if only

Feb 25, 2013: A common theory to explain England's poor showing at Brisbane has been their lack of meaningful preparation ahead of the first Test and the English Sunday papers reflect this in a number of pieces

Indian cricket

A question mark against the Indian batsmen

Feb 25, 2013: India are in serious trouble, and it's going to take more than Sachin's magic to turn things around for them, writes Barry Richards in The Hindu .