George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

The end of the road

Feb 25, 2013: Sarfraz Ahmed slept with the World Cup last night and you can hardly blame him considering it looked to have slipped away from him yesterday

English cricket

Spinometer points to Blackwell

Feb 25, 2013: After his four wickets yesterday and a fifty today, Ian Blackwell is the spinner in waiting for England, argues Derek Pringle in today's Daily Telegraph

Australian cricket

It's not Groundhog Day - Ponting

Feb 25, 2013: Ricky Ponting writes in his column in The Australian about his expectations for the South Africa tour .

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Final drama

Feb 25, 2013: What an extraordinary match; 180 runs, 20 wickets, 60 overs

USA

Florida club seeks new players

Feb 25, 2013: The Winter Haven Club, in Florida, is looking for new players to join

Commentary

Mark Waugh: Revamp of the one-day game must happen now

Feb 25, 2013: Mark Waugh believes the limited-overs game has increasingly become very predictable and lopsided and has suggested some changes to make them more interesting.

Pakistan cricket

The original little master

Feb 25, 2013: A former captain, the iconic Hanif Mohammad looks back at his caree r in an interview with the Kolkata-based daily The Telegraph

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Dancing the night away

Feb 25, 2013: This evening was the closing dinner for the World Cup, an event attended by the two main finalists and the two teams who contested the Plate final – New Zealand and Nepal

Australian cricket

Big Merv: from larrikin to establishment man

Feb 25, 2013: Martin Blake tells how Australia’s loveable larrikin became a key figure in the cricketing establishment.

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Bahawalpur's quaint charm

Feb 25, 2013: Non-availability of tickets from Multan led one to undertake a two hour journey to Bahawalpur before boarding a Karachi bound flight

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Pakistan passion

Feb 25, 2013: Was that the Aussies choking that I watched today

Offbeat

Initiating contact

Feb 25, 2013: England are going to be looking at the world through rose-tinted, er, contact lenses on Saturday

A cricket overkill?

Feb 25, 2013: Rajdeep Sardesai, says the proliferation of the game has had its impact, not just on the way the game is played but also on the manner in which it is covered in the media.

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

High on speed

Feb 25, 2013: It’s pretty surprising that a bunch of around 15 journalists, traveling on a bus this morning, actually got to the Multan Cricket Stadium

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Meeting expectations

Feb 25, 2013: It wasn’t the worst of days for Sameera de Zoysa, Sri Lanka’s stand-in captain, against Zimbabwe

Pakistan

Season Review: The plague of self doubt

Feb 25, 2013: A good cricket team, very generally speaking, is a team that plays the basics of the game well, wins well in conditions that suits it, and doesn’t disgrace it self when faced with different ones

Bowl off’s, bashed babes and bye byes.

Feb 25, 2013: For the vast majority of the crowd at Eden Park, tonight’s Twenty20 game against the West Indies was about just one thing

English cricket

Slimline tonic for Ian Blackwell

Feb 25, 2013: Ian Blackwell, who has often been criticised for his weight, has insisted his change in lifestyle - although, as he concedes, long overdue - will improve him as a player:

Cricinfo

Cricinfo records 2m unique users

Feb 25, 2013: Paul Weaver reports in The Guardian about Cricinfo’s record-breaking day of more than two million page unique users on Monday.

Sachin is like god to me - Sreesanth

Feb 25, 2013: Sreesanth treasures the moment Sachin Tendulkar handed him his India cap.