Umpires

Hair and Inzamam should be sacked

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck breaks away from the Australia media pack to attack Darrell Hair for his decision at The Oval

Australian cricket

Aussie 'soldiers' head to camp

Feb 25, 2013: Dan Koch reports in The Australian about Australia’s pre-season bootcamp , which is the idea of John Buchanan and will be supervised by a former SAS soldier.

Pakistan in England

No country is above the rules

Feb 25, 2013: A lead editorial in The Age has slammed the conduct of Pakistan’s players in refusing to take to the field at The Oval on Sunday.

Cricket's hidden tactics are an open secret

Feb 25, 2013: While the very suggestion that anyone might have been ball tampering causes outrage, Darren Berry in The Age says that it is rife - and what is more, that it could even enhance the game.

Offbeat

'Us' v 'Them'

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in Hindustan Times , Pradeep Magazine asks if cricket world in danger of getting torn asunder by a new global order that is increasingly getting polarised in stark shades of black and white?

Umpires

Loneliness of the long-distance umpire

Feb 25, 2013: While it seems that the world is queuing up to have a pop at Darrell Hair, Pat Gibson in The Times has highlighted that the job of being one of the ICC's elite umpires is not all that it is cracked up to be: It sounds like a life of glamour,

Japan

Kapil Dev and Mike Gatting head Japan fund raiser

Feb 25, 2013: Former England Test captain Mike Gatting will play in a charity cricket match in Yokohama, Japan this October, along with Indian cricketer of the century Kapil Dev, and South African legend Clive Rice.

Umpires

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Feb 25, 2013: Simon Barnes, in The Times , writes a passionate piece about the "vanity" of Darrell Hair and "how a single man’s pigheadedness was allowed to disrupt the fun of millions, to give cricket a terrible, gaping wound and to add to the tensions between

Pakistan in England

Did England trigger the ball row?

Feb 25, 2013: Derek Pringle, the former England medium-pacer who's currently the chief cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph , says England could well have triggered the ball-tampering row

Umpires

Waugh and Aussie media back Hair

Feb 25, 2013:

Hampshire

Hampshire lose points

Feb 25, 2013: If Hampshire's defeat against Warwickshire wasn't bad enough - leaving them adrift of the Championship leaders - they were also docked two points for a slow over-rate.

Offbeat

Bigotry at silly point

Feb 25, 2013: Mukul Kesavan, writing in the Hindustan Times , looks back at the Dean Jones controversy and advocates a policy of zero tolerance.

Pakistan in England

The Oval debacle

Feb 25, 2013: The decision of Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove to award England victory at The Oval has created a massive reaction.

Ashes

Australia's early blows fail to connect

Feb 25, 2013: Kevin Mitchell, writing in The Observer , believes that the Australians are worried

Pakistan in England

The Oval mourns dead rubber

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Atherton, writing in the Sunday Telegraph , feels that there is only one consolation England can take from their insipid performance at The Oval

Offbeat

United Front

Feb 25, 2013: With Monty Panesar and Sajid Mahmood in the current England side and Yorkshire teenager Adil Rashid provoking great excitement, the profile of British Asians in cricket has never been higher

Pacemen not fit to match up to Oval’s old master

Feb 25, 2013: Thirty years on from his destruction of England, Michael Holding is less than impressed with the stamina of the latest generation of fast bowlers, writes Simon Wilde

English cricket

Time to see what Broad is made of

Feb 25, 2013: Scyld Berry, writing in the Sunday Telegraph , feels Stuart Broad can solve England's one-day fast-bowling problem.

Indian cricket

Lies, cheating and offspin

Feb 25, 2013: In a freewheeling interview to The Indian Express Harbhajan Singh tells Ajay S Shankar about the journey so far and his dream to become India captain.

Lancashire

Cork a Warwickshire target

Feb 25, 2013: Dominic Cork could be joining his third county during the winter if news filtering out of Old Trafford is anything to go by