'I was surprised Dravid opened'

Feb 25, 2013: VB Chandrasekar, national selector who is on his way to Pakistan to join the Indian team-management, said that he was surprised to see Rahul Dravid open the batting in the first Test

Is it right to put the blame on me?

Feb 25, 2013: Inzamam-ul-Haq has blasted the pitch at Lahore and rubbishes claims that he had asked for a batting wicket

'Highest paid Test under-achiever in the Indian firmament'

Feb 25, 2013: R Mohan believes Ajit Agarkar is past his sell date in Test cricket and suggests alternatives

Australian cricket

Brett Lee - the bowling allrounder

Feb 25, 2013: Australia’s desperate search for an allrounder this summer may have overlooked Brett Lee

English cricket

Club offers £200 reward for info on pitch vandalism

Feb 25, 2013: A club's cricket square near Cowbridge, South Wales, was vandalised last week , and the club is offering a £200 reward to anyone who can help prosecute the vandals responsible

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

So passionate ... so Pakistani

Feb 25, 2013: There are several ways one can get to the Gaddafi Stadium from where I am staying – either walk for about ten minutes, reach the main road and take a rickshaw; or hope for a rickshaw to be around in the housing locality; or - and this is what is

Australian cricket

Simpson attacks Australia culture of sledging

Feb 25, 2013: Bob Simpson, Australia's former coach, has taken aim at Ricky Ponting and Australia's attitude towards sledging which reminds him "of the behaviour of small children and the bravado they use to disguise their own fallibilities".

China

Cricket bug infects locals

Feb 25, 2013: The game of cricket, which becomes a national obsession in Australia over summer, is developing greater appeal in China

Sehwag's ignorance - 'nothing short of shocking'

Feb 25, 2013: Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Dilip Vengsarkar, former India captains, are shocked that Virender Sehwag hadn't heard of Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad, who hold the world-record opening partnership

Imran picks his Sehwag moment

Feb 25, 2013: His quick eye just allows him to hit the ball on the up

When Kiwis were roasted in Madras dust

Feb 25, 2013: Trevor Chesterfield recalls listening on crackling radio in faraway New Zealand as Indian openers set the record.

Commentary

Targeting the umpires

Feb 25, 2013: IS over-appealing leading to the spate of very poor umpiring decisions in international matches over the last 12 months

It's costly filling Shoaib's boots

Feb 25, 2013: Shoaib Akhtar in a bid to maintain his fitness at the optimum level and avoid any foot injuries uses specially made boots, each pair costing 500 pounds (about 53,000 Pakistani rupees), and he carries five pairs in his kit bag.

The secret behind Sehwag's return to form

Feb 25, 2013: There’s a scientific explanation for Virender Sehwag's return to form

Australian cricket

Snakebite hat-trick

Feb 25, 2013: A 15-year-old cricketer from Australia was bitten by a brown snake last Thursday, and the following morning promptly took a hat-trick in his first A-grade game:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Life's a pitch

Feb 25, 2013: So here we were at Lahore, witnessing a Test played on, if we were to believe the cricketers, the flattest of surfaces

India

Opening for India

Feb 25, 2013: Jamie Alter's piece on India's sorry trend of making the most unlikely of batsmen open the innings kinda set me off today

When Roy and Mankad tormented the Kiwis

Feb 25, 2013: Clayton Murzello, sports editor of Mid-Day , the Mumbai-based daily , looks back at the world-record opening partnership of 413 between Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad in 1955-56 that Sehwag and Dravid came within an ace of breaking

Ban the Kookaburra

Feb 25, 2013: Waqar Younis is fuming

Cricket... caught on tape!

Feb 25, 2013: Sanjjeev Samyal of Mid Day , the Mumbai-based tabloid, had a practice session with a local club to understand the nuances of tape ball cricket , which is a rage in Pakistan.