Obituaries

A cricketing giant

Feb 25, 2013: Player, coach, captain, selector, manager, administrator and unwavering defender of the game's great values, Sir Clyde Walcott was a cricketing giant in every way, writes Tony Cozier in Barbados-based The Daily Nation .

Umpires

Rallying behind an Aussie

Feb 25, 2013: Australians often fall over themselves to defend a fellow countrymen irrespective of the evidence presented, or the lack of it - as in the recent ball-tampering controversy - writes Neil Manthorp in Supercricket

Umpires

Speed burns Hair at the stake

Feb 25, 2013: Malcolm Conn writes in The Australian how Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, has "burnt Darrell Hair at the stake" .

World Cricket League Americas Division

Bermuda bag title after Canada's win

Feb 25, 2013: John Davison, the Canadian captain, lead the way to his side's ten-wicket victory over USA in Ontario, on Saturday

Pakistan in England

A hair-raising drama and a crisis

Feb 25, 2013: The current fuss is just another in a long line of controversies that had no lasting ill-effects on the game of cricket, writes Jon Henderson in the Observer .

ACC Trophy 2006

UAE sweep past Hong Kong in ACC final

Feb 25, 2013: UAE 175 for 5 (Khan 61*) beat Hong Kong 174 for 8 (Ali 3-35) by 5 wickets

Australian cricket

Past greats mixed on pre-Ashes boot camp

Feb 25, 2013: Neil Harvey has called the pre-Ashes boot camp as "absolute garbage" but Alan Davidson differs

World Cricket League Americas Division

Rain halts Bermuda's progress

Feb 25, 2013: Rain and bad light put an end to the top-of-the table clash between Bermuda and USA in Ontario on Friday

World Cricket League Americas Division

Consolation win for Canada

Feb 25, 2013: Canada won their first game of the tournament, beating Argentina by 9 wickets in a rain interrupted match

Obituaries

'Those phones will no longer ring'

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in The Indian Express , S Santhanam relives some special moments with former Test opener and gentleman cricketer Vijay Mehra, who died of a heart attack yesterday

Ashes

Vintage Australia showing age

Feb 25, 2013: Tim de Lisle, writing in The Times , sees the current England and Australian teams on extreme ends of the age spectrum:

Umpires

Emails cast Hair into the wilderness

Feb 25, 2013:

Kenya

Kenyan youngsters shine with the bat

Feb 25, 2013: Khashif Rashid, a 20-year-old right-hand batsman, became what is believed to be the youngest person to score a double hundred in Kenyan league cricket

English cricket

"Never." Never? "Never."

Feb 25, 2013: That was Dominic Cork's reaction when Brian Viner of The Independent asked if he ever raised the seam of a cricket ball

Obituaries

Hooray for Raja, a sport to the end

Feb 25, 2013: Geoff McClure remembers an interesting anecdote about Wasim Raja, who died recently, during his first meeting at Perth almost 25 years ago:

Sri Lankan cricket

'The ICC should get rid of Hair'

Feb 25, 2013: Arjuna Ranatunga speaks to G Krishnan in The Hindustan Times regarding his stance on The Oval farce and his stint in Sri Lankan politics.

Pakistan in England

Pakistan will now need a new leader

Feb 25, 2013:

Umpires

Jarman recalls SA's tampering under Woolmer

Feb 25, 2013: Barry Jarman, the former match referee, says he confiscated a ball from the South African team, which was being coached by Bob Woolmer , when it was only 16 overs old because the seam had been lifted

Glamorgan

Wharf out for the season

Feb 25, 2013: Glamorgan have suffered another injury blow with the news that Alex Wharf is set to be ruled out for the rest of the season with a hip problem.

Durham

Mick Lewis reprimanded for outburst

Feb 25, 2013: Mick Lewis, the Australia fast bowler playing for Durham, has been reprimanded for an outburst during their Championship match against Sussex last week.