Australian cricket

Gilmour gets gift of life

Feb 25, 2013: Gary Gilmour, the former Australia allrounder, is recovering from a life-saving liver transplant and should be back home in Newcastle for Christmas

India

Dear Yuvraj Singh haters (my old friends)

Feb 25, 2013: 13th Dec, 2005

Indian cricket

Little boy lost

Feb 25, 2013: Mini Kapoor, writing in the Indian Express , celebrates Sachin Tendulkar's 35th hundred and says, thirty five centuries later, we still haven’t figured out what we did to him.

The streaker dilemma

Feb 25, 2013: Streakers have a tendency to display their bits and pieces at the most inappropriate times of a cricket match.

Australian cricket

ICC request 'a new low in hypocrisy'

Feb 25, 2013: The ICC’s plea to tone down verbals is dismissed by The Australian’s Malcolm Conn as a in extremely strong terms :

English cricket

Freddie mania

Feb 25, 2013: Two pieces on Freddie Flintoff after he was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year:

Sledging on the slippery slopes?

Feb 25, 2013: Malcolm Speed wants to clean up the game citing a “ spate of Code of Conduct offences ” as the impetus for his request for players to take a copy of the rule book to bed and wash their mouths out with soapy water.

Associates

ICC boost the next rung

Feb 25, 2013: The ICC's Winter Training Camp has been about more than simply improving players from the six Associate countries to have qualified for the 2007 World Cup, and the rewards are there for all to see

Ireland

Ireland to go semi pro?

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland are considering offering key players semi-professional contracts as they gear up for a key 15 months which culminates in the 2007 World Cup

USA

USA scores another own goal

Feb 25, 2013: So low is the USA Cricket Association's standing in world cricket - this was the organisation barred from the last ICC AGM in London - that you woukd think they would do all they could to show that they are now on the ball

Two Smiles

Feb 25, 2013: Often a smile says more than many paragraphs

Australian cricket

Rating Australia's back-up bowling brigade

Feb 25, 2013: Australia’s reserve bowling stocks came under heavy inspection following the loss to New Zealand and The Daily Telegraph’s Robert Craddock worries that after being spoilt rotten by slick baton changes the team may be in for a bumpy ride

Live commentary

The nightmare called Television Commentary

Feb 25, 2013: It’s the mid innings break in the first One-Day International, – I think these should be renamed Damage Limitation Internationals or DLIs given the state of most one-day pitches now-a-days

Live commentary

'I wasn’t there'

Feb 25, 2013: It could have been one of the greatest days of my life and I went AWOL

Self belief, sledging, and the art of the possible

Feb 25, 2013: New Zealand have defeated Australia in the third ODI by chasing down Australia's score of 331, setting a new world record in the process

Indian cricket

A nation applauds

Feb 25, 2013: There are a few things that stir India as much as Sachin Tendulkar and his record 35th Test hundred provided journalists across the country celebrate a momentous ocassion.

Dead rubber bridesmaids

Feb 25, 2013: Australia have a knack of losing ‘dead rubbers’ after securing a series win

Bermuda

Getting shirty

Feb 25, 2013: You know that you've hit the big time when you start selling replica shirts , as is the case in Bermuda.

ICC

Akram on the ICC

Feb 25, 2013: Wasim Akram is clearly not happy with the ICC

West Indies

Magic balls: Buy one, get one free

Feb 25, 2013: Twelve summers ago I had a fairly animated discussion on a fast bowler’s ideal delivery with Gogol, the kid brother of a friend and a perennial favourite of mine