Australian cricket

When Pigeon missed Dizzy

Feb 25, 2013: Glenn McGrath talks about the time when he was rudely awakened to the brave new world of Australian cricket and how he longed for his friend and former team-mate, Jason Gillespie.

Australian cricket

Punter's luck

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck on Ricky Ponting's good fortune on the third day at Perth, and how such moments can turn out to be defining in the context of the Test.

Bermuda

Clay Smith out of action until April

Feb 25, 2013: Bermuda's captain Clay Smith is likely to be out of action until at least April, as he travels overseas to seek advice on his injured knee.

English cricket

Flintoff the counsellor

Feb 25, 2013: More evidence that Andrew Flintoff can seemingly do no wrong

Indian cricket

'There was a moment when I just couldn't talk'

Feb 25, 2013: Sachin Tendulkar in an intimate conversation with Pradeep Magazine talks about the intense pressure he was undergoing prior to hitting the world-record 35th Test century.

Australian cricket

End Warne's one-day retirement

Feb 25, 2013: Mark Waugh writes in the Sun-Herald Australia’s best chance of winning the 2007 World Cup is to lure Shane Warne back

English cricket

Hugh Morris on surviving cancer (and Ambrose)

Feb 25, 2013:

Australian cricket

Howard not a Twenty20 convert (yet)

Feb 25, 2013: Twenty20 has brought a new audience to cricket, and even converted some die-hard traditionalists to a newer, faster and shorter game of cricket

Sri Lanka

Once upon a time in Singapore...

Feb 25, 2013: April 7, 1996

Retirement planning, Earl Woods style

Feb 25, 2013: Earl Woods bred a Tiger

Ganguly's stiff hip and other stories

Feb 25, 2013: A spinner came along, and gave it flight

Indian cricket

This wasn’t cricket

Feb 25, 2013: The culture of our sport and our society demanded that Sourav Ganguly deserved to choose his exit ; instead, his lifeline was rudely cut

Australian cricket

A posterior for posterity

Feb 25, 2013: Sculptor Lou Laumen has captured something else about Ponsford a posterior for posterity , as it were

Indian cricket

Face the facts

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck feels it's about time the Indian cricket community grew up

Australian cricket

When emotion found a role in the game - but no kisses

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket statistician Ross Dundas has brought to light the remarkable fact that batsmen in this year's Ashes Tests scored half as fast again on average as batsmen in the 1972 Ashes series - 3.79 runs per six balls faced compared with a dreary 2.51

Commentary

Bowlers, not bats have more to fear

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Ramsey feels that so frighteningly efficient is the modern-day cricket bat that greatest danger lurks for the bowler whose momentum and follow-through renders him a virtually defenceless target from a distance of less than 20metres.

Commentary

Cricket declares war on itself

Feb 25, 2013: The game's capacity for contradiction has been disturbingly on show recently, says Tim Lane

Nepal

Gavaskar praises Nepali cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Having accepted an invitation from the Nepal tourist board, Sunil Gavaskar has praised the standard of Nepali cricket but says more exposure is needed if they are to prosper:

Associates

Equipment drive for East Asia-Pacific

Feb 25, 2013: The ICC, Melbourne Cricket Club and Cricket Victoria have joined forces to establish an equipment drive event for the ICC’s East Asia-Pacific (EAP) Region at the Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa

English cricket

Henley completes purchase of ground

Feb 25, 2013: It seems every club (and their uncle) is trying to buy their grounds these days