Australian cricket

Bollywood beckons for Brett Lee

Feb 25, 2013:

About Pak Spin

Rules of the blog 1

Feb 25, 2013: Your feedback has been tremendous, so tremendous that I thought it might be useful to explain which comments will or will not be posted

Analysis

Does England's flop matter?

Feb 25, 2013: There are two immediate consequences of England's opening defeat in the Champions Trophy

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and George Binoy at the 2006 Champions Trophy

Diwali comes a tad early

Feb 25, 2013: A little after 7pm in the India v England clash at Jaipur, with Rahul Dravid having just arrived at the crease, fireworks lit up the skies over the Sawai Man Singh Stadium

Ashes

Australia get the excuses ready

Feb 25, 2013: Glenn McGrath's injuries...England's use of sub fielders...sold out grounds of English fans...they have all be used as excuses why the Ashes slipped away from Australia last year

Ashes

Will McGrath make the ball talk or whisper?

Feb 25, 2013:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and George Binoy at the 2006 Champions Trophy

Remembering Merchant

Feb 25, 2013:

Bill Gordon earns groundsman honour

Feb 25, 2013: Bill Gordon of the The Oval has been awarded the groundsman of the year honour for both the four-day and one-day category with Mick Hunt of Lord

A different life

Feb 25, 2013: In India for the Champions Trophy, Neil Manthorp witnesses the harsh realities of life for the several thousand pavement dwellers in Mumbai and writes how such scenes bring out a person's benevolent side.

Ashes

England to win in 2009

Feb 25, 2013: The Ashes are more than two years away..

World Cup 2007

World Cup plans ahead of schedule

Feb 25, 2013: "Fears that the World Cup in the West Indies next autumn will be a debacle have been laid to rest ", writes Peter Roebuck in the Sydney Morning Herald .

Australian cricket

Cooley says McGrath can play at 40

Feb 25, 2013:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and George Binoy at the 2006 Champions Trophy

Powar to the gizmos

Feb 25, 2013: As the Indians went through their paces at the Rajasthan Cricket Academyground, a couple of software engineers, stationed at one corner, went about setting up their equipment

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and George Binoy at the 2006 Champions Trophy

Sachin who? and other stories

Feb 25, 2013: As I made my way to the Wankhede Stadium this morning, most of my thoughts centered on how Michael Hussey would bat.

Charity

Botham's tireless city crusade

Feb 25, 2013: The Telegraph's Robert Philip joins Ian Botham on a ten-mile leg of his latest fundraising walk in aid of Leukaemia Research and the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Offbeat

The new discovery of cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Boria Mazumdar takes a look at the new brand of cricket coverage on Indian television which is set to transform the nature of global cricket coverage.

Middle order

Who can replace Inzy the batsman?

Feb 25, 2013: The best call from the PCB over the past few days was to confirm Inzamam as captain for the West Indies series, simply because it helped settle any uncertainty about what would happen after the Champions Trophy.

Politics

The great Younis Khan debate

Feb 25, 2013: This has been a great debate on Younis Khan’s volte face, and it is clear that people on all sides of the debate are genuinely concerned about the future of Pakistan cricket and unwilling for the cricket board to be anything less than professional.

Indian cricket

He drove 250 km for international moment

Feb 25, 2013: Indian Express tracks the story of Sitanshu Kotak’s 12-year-old domestic battle .

Australian cricket

Bracken’s mother-in-law keeps eye on the game

Feb 25, 2013: Nathan Bracken is in India with the Champions Trophy squad, but he hasn’t forgotten his mother-in-law, who he says has premonitions about his performances