Offbeat

Kambli prepares to tie the knot

Feb 25, 2013: Vinod Kambli is all set for a new innings, writes Clayton Murzello in Mid-Day , the Mumbai-based newspaper

Indian cricket

Santosh Yadav seeks reincarnation

Feb 25, 2013: At 16, Santosh Yadav was Hyderabad's brightest prospect

It's not just cricket's attitude that stinks

Feb 25, 2013: In The Times , former Wisden editor Tim de Lisle highlights the fact that cricket's international merry-go-round is not only hard on the players, it's also pretty environmentally unfriendly

English cricket

Batsman has a heart attack but plays on

Feb 25, 2013: A remarkable story in The Daily Telegraph of a man who put his approaching fifty ahead of the minor point that he was having a heart attack at the time

English cricket

Ask the expert: Kevin Shine

Feb 25, 2013: Does Stuart Broad have as much potential as everybody is saying

Australian cricket

Clarke's helping hand for Warne

Feb 25, 2013:

Umpires

For Darrell Hair read the village vicar

Feb 25, 2013: It could have been a scene out of England, Their England ..

It's not what you say...

Feb 25, 2013: The life of the modern elite cricketer is different from most of our own

Hampshire

Mascarenhas reprimanded

Feb 25, 2013: Dimitri Mascarenhas has been reprimanded under the ECB's discipline code following an incident during Hampshire's County Championship match with Warwickshire earlier this month.

Swinging in confusion

Feb 25, 2013: Here’s a much-awaited treatise on that great mystery of cricket – swing

Canada

Shaw win battle of the Theatre Festivals

Feb 25, 2013: The Shaw Festival beat the Stratford Festival by 102 runs at Veterans Memorial Park, Niagara-on-the-Lake on Monday August 29

English cricket

Damp Cardiff passes its first test

Feb 25, 2013: Cardiff was very much under the spotlight last night as it hosted its first one-day international since the somewhat controversial decision to award it an Ashes Test in 2009

World Cricket League Americas Division

Bermuda win Americas title

Feb 25, 2013: Bermuda won the World Cricket League Americas Division 1 Championship for the first time

Umpires

Some Vaseline for Hair

Feb 25, 2013: Speaking of umpires and controversies, Judah Reuben, a former Indian umpire, recalls his moment in the spotlight, during the John Lever-Vaseline controversy in Madras in 1976-77

English cricket

Now who's the muppet, Pietersen?

Feb 25, 2013: Kevin Pietersen could be in hot water for branding Graeme Smith, the South African captain, "an absolute muppet" in his new book, Crossing The Boundary , feels the Mirror's Mike Walters

Indian cricket

The story of Ishwar Choudhury

Feb 25, 2013: If Munaf Patel could do it, so can Ishwar Choudhury

Australian cricket

Bulky McGrath hopes to tip Ashes scales

Feb 25, 2013:

Bermuda

Bermuda beaten...by Ernesto

Feb 25, 2013: The tropical storm Ernesto cancelled Bermuda’s matches at the Under-15 Americas Championship yesterday in Florida

Israel

Ramle shock Lions Lod

Feb 25, 2013: Ramle shocked Lions Lod yesterday with a 35-run win:

Pakistan in England

Did first-innings tricks alert Hair?

Feb 25, 2013: Derek Pringle, writing in the Daily Telegraph , believes that the first innings may point to ball suspicions.