Australian cricket

'McGrath's best days are gone'

Feb 25, 2013: Jeff Thomson believes Glenn McGrath is too old and his effectiveness is in doubt for the 2007 World Cup.

Village Category

Welcome to the npower village cup 2006 blog

Feb 25, 2013: We are pleased to report that we have had overwhelming interest in the NVC this year, due to the healthy interest in grassroots cricket coverage by Sky and the support we have received from npower

Television

Perpetual petulance reaches its zenith

Feb 25, 2013: Vin Maskell has had enough of TV's constant slow-motion replays, and questions whether cricket on TV is losing its appeal :

English cricket

Boycott the bar

Feb 25, 2013: No, Geoff hasn't given himself an ironic middle name

Spring clean your club

Feb 25, 2013:

Ireland

Ireland v England sold out

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland play England in a one-dayer on June 13 which is expected to be a sell-out, as reported by us yesterday.

Argentina

MCC tour of Argentina

Feb 25, 2013: Rod kindly wrote in to remind us (and you) of MCC's tour of Argentina which gets underway soon

No time to play meek and humble

Feb 25, 2013: What do Evo Morales, the Iranian government and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have in common?

Meanwhile, rumours of a greentop in Karachi!

Feb 25, 2013: Here we go again

Bermuda

More unrest in Bermuda

Feb 25, 2013: It's often said that money cannot buy happiness, and that seems to be the case in Bermuda, where the millions of dollars that have poured in since they qualified for the World Cup have produced more than their fair share of stories of unease in the

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Preserve of the reserve

Feb 25, 2013: It's always interesting to know how a reserve spends his time when a cricket match is going on

Australian cricket

Lillee helping Watson

Feb 25, 2013: Dennis Lillee has been helping Shane Watson, who is recovering from a shoulder injury, refine his action and he now believes Watson is good enough to get into the Australian side on his bowling alone:

India

Welcome to the new world order!

Feb 25, 2013: Ladies and Gentlemen: For those of you, who are wondering what all this ruckus about India’s new found importance in the Cricket world and its consequences are, this is what it translates into: As soon as the news was out, Kevin Pietersen applied for

Women's cricket

Isa Guha looking forward to Lord's

Feb 25, 2013: Isa Guha writes in the Bucks Free Press about her ambitions, on playing against Australia and her forthcoming trip to Lord's to face India

USA

USA on a mission

Feb 25, 2013: Vish Lekhram writes enthusiastically about the USA team who today head to Sri Lanka for the Under-19 World Cup:

Umpires

Association of Umpires & Scorers faces collapse

Feb 25, 2013: A dissident group of umpires were yesterday pondering the collapse of the Association of Umpires & Scorers special meeting at the Derbyshire County Ground on Saturday

'Rakhi' - Pakistani fan christens the India-Pakistan series

Feb 25, 2013: Tanya Aldred of The Guardian had called it as the tandoori ashes and now a Pakistani, Dr Saeed Durrani of Islamabad, in a letter to editor in the The Daily times , Pakistani daily, suggests ' Rakhi ', after rejecting words like Khak and Khakister

Pakistan to finally receive 1996 World Cup dues

Feb 25, 2013: The Indian board is handing over some money

Sledging Ganguly

Feb 25, 2013: When Sourav Ganguly ran in to the middle with the drinks and was seen egging Mahendra Singh Dhoni,involved in a battle with Shoaib Akthar, some Pakistan cricketers couldn't let go the opportunity to indulge in a banter with the former India

Harbhajan seeks divine intervention

Feb 25, 2013: Harbhajan Singh joined the Pakistan team on Sunday to hear Maulana Tariq Jamil,a young preacher from the Tableeghi Jamat sect, speak