English cricket

100-year-old cricket painting up for sale

Feb 25, 2013: Kent might be selling their most famous cricket painting, Albert Chevallier Tayler's painting of Kent v Lancashire in 1906:

Australian cricket

Australian arrogance?

Feb 25, 2013: Former New Zealand batsman Mark Richardson has copped flack in Australia after accusing the Australians of arrogance after they decided to rest Glenn McGrath for the Chappell-Hadlee one-day series:

England

So how good ARE England?

Feb 25, 2013: September 12, 2005: The Ashes are England's, the crowds were celebrating in the streets, and numerous and loud were the English fans claiming their team as the world's number one Test nation

Television

Secret talks predated TV deal

Feb 25, 2013: The unease among many surrounding the ECB's deal with BSkyB just won;t go away

The graph of a cricketer’s life

Feb 25, 2013: In the last couple of years I haven’t been following cricket as closely as I earlier used to, but every once in a while something happens (a brilliant Lara or Gilchrist innings, a halfway decent knock by Sachin, a dominant performance by a team -

USA

D-Day looms in the USA

Feb 25, 2013: An end in sight for the shambles that has been blighting the USA Cricket Association for more than a year, or another false dawn

USA

A kinder, gentler sports craze

Feb 25, 2013: This CBS feature on cricket in the USA is well worth a look as it also includes a TV news report on the game being played among the young (admittedly ex-pat) community

Fiji

Fiji looks to encourage the young

Feb 25, 2013: Good news from Fiji where the authorities are reviving their free school holiday cricket program beginning next Monday (Dec 5) at Albert Park, Suva

Indian cricket

Think of the fans - it's raining!

Feb 25, 2013: Ahead of India's first Test against Sri Lanka on December 2, a cricket fanatic has appealed to the court :

Australian cricket

From befuddled quick to leader of the pack

Feb 25, 2013: Trevor Marshallsea says Brett Lee has gone from a befuddled quick bowler to the leader of the pack:

West Indies cricket

Unity needed to revive Windies

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Coward feels that West Indies cricket has learned so little from history its future remains uncertain.

Wisdom of the crowd!

Feb 25, 2013: The middle-finger salute by Greg Chappell has had the entire media agreeing on one issue

Pakistan

Rana Naved-ul-Hasan

Feb 25, 2013: In between the successive days of test I suffer from a kind of ennui, a mixture of listlessness and willful melancholy, even on days like today , when one’s favored team hasn’t disappointed contrary to reputation

BCCI elections 2005

Farooq Abdullah's turn in the limelight

Feb 25, 2013: After Pawar it was the turn of Farooq Abdullah, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association to spend five minutes in the glare of the media

Television

Sky in the spotlight

Feb 25, 2013: As the debate of whether the ECB should have sold TV rights to satellite broadcaster BSkyB, David Brook, a former Channel 4 executive who has been leading a campaign to get the coverage back on free-to-air television, is about to address a House of

BCCI elections 2005

Triumphant Pawar hails observer's role

Feb 25, 2013: While the results of the election had not yet been officially announced, the results were widely accepted, and Sharad Pawar came out of the meeting room to briefly address the media

BCCI elections 2005

Pawar claims victory

Feb 25, 2013: Amid massive chaos, yelling and screaming, members of the Sharad Pawar group charged out of the room where the elections were happening and proclaimed victory by the thumping margin of 20 to 10

Bermuda

Kicking up the dirt

Feb 25, 2013: It's all fun and games in Bermuda where top groundsman Andy Atkinson last year described the island's new pitch as "more suitable for growing carrots"

Nepal

Mani praises 'impressive' Nepal

Feb 25, 2013: Ehsan Mani, the ICC president, and Malcolm Speed, the CEO, both praised Nepal's performance in Under-19 cricket and hoped that the country would translate the success in the senior level as well

Ireland

Bray signs for Eglinton

Feb 25, 2013: Top Irish batsman Jeremy Bray has signed for Eglinton