Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Watching Sachin leave

Feb 25, 2013: Strangely, and this maybe because I have watched most of Sachin Tendulkar’s career before I began covering cricket, I have rarely noticed him when he leaves the ball.

Ireland

Ireland bag Saqlain

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland have secured the services of Saqlain Mushtaq , the former Pakistan offspinner, for their C&G Trophy campaign this season.

World Cup

Thoughts turn to 2011 World Cup

Feb 25, 2013: We're a year away from the 2007 World Cup, and yet thoughts are already turning to the 2011 event, as Tony Munro finds out in this week's Beyond the Test World column .

Crowd behaviour

Racism in the Caribbean...but not in the stands

Feb 25, 2013: Introduction | Peter English | Rahul Bhattacharya | Neil Manthorp

Ashes to dust as England seek credibility

Feb 25, 2013: In the Daily Telegraph , Derek Pringle writes that beating Australia might earn a gong and champagne with the Queen, but winning a Test series in India is a prize achieved by only a few .

Australian cricket

A week in the life of Ricky Ponting

Feb 25, 2013: The Sydney Morning Herald’s Trevor Marshallsea tracks Ricky Ponting’s week, which culminated in his 124 against Sri Lanka last night

Australian cricket

Ageing legends to tour Australian outback

Feb 25, 2013: No, we're not talking about the Rolling Stones or even AC/DC

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Time for reflection

Feb 25, 2013: Today was a ‘Poya Day’ in Sri Lanka - a Buddhist ritual which happens four times a month and equates to the four phases of the moon

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Running from pillar to post

Feb 25, 2013: I was just imagining Rahul Dravid's life when one-dayers are on

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Certainly not nondescript

Feb 25, 2013: Nondescripts is an unassuming cricket ground, the only one of the five used for this tournament that hasn’t hosted a Test or ODI

Australian cricket

Jaques has a ball … in the park

Feb 25, 2013: Phil Jaques is the country’s most exciting batting prospect since Michael Clarke, but while Australia trained at the SCG he was playing club cricket .

India-Pakistan

On S Sreesanth and Suresh Raina

Feb 25, 2013: A striking feature of India's cricket this season is the difference between the look of the team in one-day cricket and that in Tests

Guernsey

Guernsey's finest join Europe's best

Feb 25, 2013: In April, Jamie Nussbaumer, James Mullen and Johnny Clark are off to Spain and the La Manga sport resort to undergo intensive week-long training programmes

New Zealand cricket

NZ cricketers' haunted house proving dangerous

Feb 25, 2013: A bunch of New Zealand cricketers have been spending time at an alleged "haunted house," and each has come down, rather spookily, with injuries :

Downtime

Feb 25, 2013: We had an unfortunate period of downtime which lasted 48 hours and affected all our blogs

2007 World Cup

Selectors missing the point.

Feb 25, 2013: Given Australia’s increasingly patchy form in one-day internationals, there has been much navel gazing about the composition of the side moving forward towards the 2007 World Cup

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

The only way to travel

Feb 25, 2013: You’ll have read the occasional passing reference to tuk-tuks in this diary already, but the three-wheeled vehicles have become such a part of my everyday life around Colombo that I felt they deserved an entry of their own

Crowd behaviour

Offensive naïvety

Feb 25, 2013: Introduction | Peter English | Rahul Bhattacharya

India-Pakistan

An Argumentum Ad Hominem

Feb 25, 2013: To me, it appears that the Indian team was desperate to win the game by hook or by crook, no matter even it came at the expense of the norms of this sport known as the gentleman's game.

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Ruins in fantasy land

Feb 25, 2013: Taxilla