So long, Shahid

Jul 21, 2010: If ever a cricketer has been delicious, it has been Afridi

England are shining but is anyone watching?

Jul 4, 2010: So they beat the old enemy, but did anyone notice in the noise of the football and the tennis?

Spare a tear for the underdog

Jun 13, 2010: Often the cricket fan's sympathy lies with the vanquished, not the victor

Hail Britannia, you dear old multicoloured thing

May 21, 2010: The England team full of players from other countries? Well, knock us down with a feather

Delighting in the Modi mess

May 2, 2010: Breathes there a fan with soul so dead who hasn't taken joy from cricket controversies?

Oh for a spot of fixing

Apr 16, 2010: Some bowlers are accused of involvement in irregularities; for others there's no such excuse. And who knew bookies watched county cricket?

Greedy or good?

Mar 25, 2010: There's plenty of over-the-top excess in the IPL, but there's a fair bit to like as well

No more the rocker

Mar 4, 2010: The thrill of watching Brett Lee at the top of his run-up in a Test match was something else

Here's to Gibson

Feb 10, 2010: It's good to see a West Indian at the helm of this once-great side

Good on you, Graeme

Jan 26, 2010: He's a crowd pleaser, an effortless charmer, a top-drawer spinner and better than a lower-order biffer. If the IPL doesn't want Swann, it's their loss, really

Vaughan behind the mike

Jan 7, 2010: The former England captain is, somewhat surprisingly, good on radio: funny, articulate, shrewd and insightful

What cricket can do for the environment

Dec 14, 2009: Players need to travel to play, but do they need to play so frequently?

Three from Tendulkar

Nov 27, 2009: There's something about the passion Sachin inspires that makes cricket worth it

The terrible treachery of Jonathan Trott

Nov 7, 2009: England's newest South African-born batting star a traitor? Oh the humanity!

Manchester United Cricket Club?

Oct 22, 2009: What if the football behemoth took to cricket? It might be the only way England could produce a winner in Champions League Twenty20

Where have all the villains gone?

Oct 6, 2009: Australia's clean-cut, ever-smiling pack of current cricketers makes you long for the scowling grouches of old

Damn the bloat

Sep 21, 2009: Day-nighters in autumn? English cricket has crossed a certain line with this one

A giant leap for womankind

Jun 22, 2009: This tournament has been a fine evangelical exercise for the women's game

Sixteen again

Jun 19, 2009: In which Shahid Afridi rediscovers his old self

Green, mean and dreary

Jun 17, 2009: South Africa should be crowd favourites but it seems their fate to be boring as England - only better