Champions Trophy 2006

Thriving on adversity

Feb 25, 2013: Over the last week, of the seven teams that visited Jaipur, it's been Pakistan who have, ironically, appeared most relaxed

Champions Trophy 2006

A deeply stirring spectacle

Feb 25, 2013: One-day wins aren't supposed to mean this much are they

Pakistan cricket

Akhtar the actor

Feb 25, 2013: While speculation is rife about Shoaib Akhtar’s future after he failed a drugs test, the Sydney Morning Herald says that as one door closes, another one might be opening, suggesting that he might be heading into films.

English cricket

MCC turn heat on chairman Fry

Feb 25, 2013: The MCC is not a body that usually washes its dirty linen in public but according to Mihir Bose, all is not well in NW8

Champions Trophy

A win to relish

Feb 25, 2013: The encounter between Pakistan and Sri Lanka was as emotionally charged as any match Pakistan have ever played

China

China crisis

Feb 25, 2013: Less than a month after the ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed described China as the sport's biggest growth market, the cricket photographer Graham Morris was refused a visa to enter the country.

Yorkshire

Two leggies at Leeds- whatever next?

Feb 25, 2013: David Byas is not seen as a gambler

Worcestershire

Rhodes to recovery on and off the field

Feb 25, 2013: Worcestershire achieved their pre-season goals of winning double promotion and creating a happy dressing room

Warwickshire

Hard going under Greatbatch

Feb 25, 2013: If Mark Greatbatch was not aware of the high expectations that come with being Warwickshire

Sussex

Robinson reaps where Moores sowed

Feb 25, 2013: Wait 164 years for a Championship, then two pop along at once

Surrey

Whistling while they worked

Feb 25, 2013: On the last day of the one-day league even a par display against Somerset would have ensured double-promotion for Butcher and Son

Somerset

White wash cannnot hide the cracks

Feb 25, 2013: Our transatlantic cousins would call them the losingest side in town

Nottinghamshire

Down with the old guard

Feb 25, 2013: Nottinghamshire emulated Yorkshire

Northamptonshire

Free from the iron grip of Wessels

Feb 25, 2013: Kepler Wessels' autocratic style of management finally put paid to him, with the players calling in their union, the Professional Cricketers

Middlesex

Bottoming out in search of seamers

Feb 25, 2013: Three bottom places mean fewer reasons to be cheerful

Leicestershire

A Boon in more ways than one

Feb 25, 2013: Tim Boon made a smooth transition from international to county coaching and his side responded

Lancashire

Red Rose suffers in the rain

Feb 25, 2013: When the sinking sun stopped play on the penultimate day of Lancashire

Kent

Key's first turn fails to open the door

Feb 25, 2013: For Rob Key it was a vexing first campaign in charge

Hampshire

The Warne effect cuts two ways

Feb 25, 2013: There were two distinct Hampshires in 2006: one with Shane Warne leading with verve, imagination and aggression, another more timid variety, left to their own devices during his trips home

Gloucestershire

Hats off to the bats and Lewis

Feb 25, 2013: One promotion, in the one-dayers, but nowhere near a second