Warwickshire

County look to quell Greatbatch unrest

Feb 25, 2013: Warwickshire are holding a series meetings aimed at defusing tension between their players and Mark Greatbatch , the county

English cricket

Straussspeak

Feb 25, 2013:

Kent

Ford agrees new Kent deal

Feb 25, 2013: Graham Ford has agreed a new contract to remain as Kent's coach until at least 2008.

Dileep Premachandran at the 2006 DLF Cup

A realtor's instinct to swing it

Feb 25, 2013:

Uganda

Uganda up the pace ahead of Kenya series

Feb 25, 2013: The Ugandan team is stepping up its preparations ahead of their series against Kenya, which starts on September 23 at Lugogo Oval.

Somerset

Somerset sign two more

Feb 25, 2013: Following their signing of Steffan Jones from Derbyshire, Somerset have added two more names to their squad for next season.

Selection

Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)

Feb 25, 2013: The third and final instalment in this little series, with acknowledgments to the late, great Ian Dury.

Ashes

Giles's fitness worries remain just that

Feb 25, 2013: One of the most contentious selections by England for the Ashes was that of Ashley Giles , who last bowled a ball in anger in November 2005 … almost a year to the day before the first Test at Brisbane is due to get underway

Ashes

Realisation of a boyhood dream

Feb 25, 2013: Alastair Cook reveals to The Daily Telegraph the feeling when he heard his name announced by David Graveney as being one of the England squad for this winter’s Ashes series

Ashes

England are setting up Super Fred for a crash landing

Feb 25, 2013: Alex Brown, of the Age , the Melbourne-based daily, is not convinced about the potency of the English squad for the Ashes .

Selection

Reasons to be cheerful (part 2)

Feb 25, 2013:

Selection

Reasons to be cheerful (part 1)

Feb 25, 2013: One England fan was berating me yesterday for being an “old grumpus”

Kent

Fulton fears the end

Feb 25, 2013: David Fulton, who has been left out of the Kent side for their latest Championship match against Yorkshire, fears his days as a Kent player are coming to an end

Dileep Premachandran at the 2006 DLF Cup

Not quite the home of cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Imagine a cabbie in Melbourne not knowing how to get to the MCG, or his counterpart in New York staring at you blankly when you ask to go to Yankee Stadium

Derbyshire

Jones returns to Somerset

Feb 25, 2013: Steffan Jones, the seam bowler, is leaving Derbyshire to return to his former county, Somerset, on a three-year contract for family reasons

China

Greed is good where China is concerned

Feb 25, 2013: Hardly a week goes by these days without someone excitedly claiming that cricket is about to take-off in China

Ashes

England gamble on injured contingent

Feb 25, 2013:

Greed is good when looking east

Feb 25, 2013: Hardly a week goes by these days without someone excitedly claiming that cricket is about to take-off in China

Selection

Safe yet risky

Feb 25, 2013: The Ashes squad is out now and my gut reaction is: they've played safe on everything – except fitness

Media

A question for the BBC

Feb 25, 2013: BBC television has just announced that it will be showing highlights of the Ashes