Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Watching ... painfully

Feb 25, 2013: As one tries to make sense of what exactly happened in the cricket today, when Pakistan gorged themselves in batting heaven, one needs to spare a thought

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

More than magic

Feb 25, 2013: There isn’t much that Sourav Ganguly hasn’t done on a cricket field, but what he did around 2:20pm today was quite novel

Pakistan cricket

Pakistan's paid fan putting pen to paper

Feb 25, 2013: Whenever you watch a match involving Pakistan there will always be at least one familiar face in the crowd, the flag-waving Abdul Jaleel

Haroon and the sea of stories

Feb 25, 2013: No, we are not talking about Salman Rushdie’s book but Haroon Rashid, the former Pakistan team manager, who lost his job a year back

I will open… No I will … And the argument continues

Feb 25, 2013: Images of what looked liked a heated argument, involving the usual suspects - Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Greg Chappell - were beamed in the television on day 1 of the game

What's eating Ravi Shastri?

Feb 25, 2013: Ravi Shastri is not a happy man

Australian cricket

Much ado about the roof

Feb 25, 2013: " Telstra Dome's debut as an open-air cricket venue threatened to dissolve into farce last night," writes Nabila Ahmed in The Age , "with the roof opened, closed and opened again in a night of confusion caused by a massive shadow across the

Australian cricket

World Cup: it's time Warne chose

Feb 25, 2013: The speculation over the possibility of Shane Warne returning to one-day cricket continues

India-Pakistan

Lahore Test, 2006: 2nd day preview

Feb 25, 2013: After a hopelessly one-sided Test-One-Day-One, Indian backs are nearing the wall and The Wall is undergoing a crushing test of limit

USA

Clash looms in the USA

Feb 25, 2013: With the USA Cricket Association still doggedly determined to run cricket in the USA after it saw off the challenge from a rebel group of stakeholders, it has a new challenger - Major League Cricket .

Scotland

Scotland create their own mess

Feb 25, 2013: Six months ago to the day, coach Andy Moles guided Scotland to the ICC Trophy - and into the 2007 World Cup - and was rewarded with a two-year extension to his contract

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Oh hundred, my hundred

Feb 25, 2013: The moment that a batsman reaches an important landmark always assumes an importance at a cricket match

Pakistan cricket

A judge and his quandary

Feb 25, 2013: Wasim Akram's solicitor has rubbished the statements of Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum, who in an interview with Cricinfo had said a "soft corner" for Akram might have influenced him while handing out a lenient punishment in the match-fixing case

Bet on Tendulkar - to fail

Feb 25, 2013: Lose money if Tendulkar scores The word is out that India will win the first Test

Malaysia

ACC Trophy to be held in Malaysia

Feb 25, 2013: The Asian Cricket Council Development Committee has proposed that the next ACC Trophy be held in Kuala Lumpur in August

Australian cricket

Ill-Lee-gally dangerous

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck in The Age delivers his closing to the jury about Brett Lee's beamers and spares a thought for the victims who have lived to tell the tale Australia must think long and hard before including Brett Lee in its limited-overs team

To see or not to see live

Feb 25, 2013: Rahul Bhatia has a point about the television rights row here

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Eid with the Akmals

Feb 25, 2013: I had, with great difficulty, managed to get a SIM card during Eid in Lahore

Offbeat

It takes team to tango in Essex

Feb 25, 2013: One, two cha-cha-cha; three, four cha-cha-cha ..

The hot and dosti tandoori Ashes

Feb 25, 2013: Nevermind the traditional Ashes, says Tanya Aldred