56th FOS Junior Cricket Sixes Carnival

56th Festival of Sport Junior Cricket Sixes Carnival

Feb 26, 2013: To commemorate the Bank of China (Hong Kong) 56th Festival of Sport, the HKCA is organising a Junior Cricket Sixes Carnival to be held at the Po Kong Village Road Reservoir ground near Diamond Hill on 29th & 30th March 2013.

New Zealand XI v England XI, Tour game, Queenstown

A test of mettle and form for New Zealand hopefuls

Feb 26, 2013: Four New Zealand XI players - Tom Latham, Hamish Rutherford, Neil Wagner and Mark Gillespie - are looking to impress selectors with their performance in the tour game

Test cricket

In praise of Test cricket

Feb 26, 2013: Nirmal Shekar pays tribute to the beauty of Test cricket

India v Australia, 1st Test, Chennai, 5th day

India take 1-0 lead with eight-wicket win

Feb 26, 2013: An Indian victory that seemed imminent minutes after tea on day four was eventually completed by Sachin Tendulkar, 40 minutes before lunch on day five

Moises Henriques and Max Greenfield

Feb 26, 2013:

England in New Zealand, 2012-13

England get back into Test mode

Feb 26, 2013: England will look to iron out some selection dilemmas as they prepare for the Test series with an important four-day tour game against New Zealand XI

Abbott's start, and Dhoni's blitz

Feb 26, 2013: Also: most innings between centuries, ten-fors in defeats, shortest international innings, and starting with a stumping

Three to tango

Feb 26, 2013: A look at New Zealand's potential debutants in the series against England

News

ACC news

Feb 25, 2013: Nepal, the odds-on favourites who have dominated recent Asian Cricket Council Under-19 tournaments, were brought down to earth with a bump by Hong Kong who sent them crashing to a 36-run defeat

Andrew Miller on England in Sri Lanka, 2007-08

The official unofficial England fanzine

Feb 25, 2013:

Olympics

Time cricket embraced the Olympics

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket is recognised as a sport by the International Olympic Committee. So what is keeping the ICC and its member bodies from applying for the Summer Olympics?

Olympics

'Grown up loving cricket more than track and field'

Feb 25, 2013: Yohan Blake, the Olympic-medal winning Jamaican sprinter, analyses India's bowling attack, and talks about miming cricket strokes during sprinting training

Why cricket's better than the Olympics

Feb 25, 2013: Firstly, there's the wonderful commentary we enjoy

Olympians

Yohan Blake's cricket dreams

Feb 25, 2013: Fresh off his silver-winning sprint at the Olympics on Sunday night Yohan Blake declared his next targets

West Indies cricket

Gold medal stops play?

Feb 25, 2013: So you've heard of dogs stopping play and interruptions caused by streakers and missing bails

Cricket

Watching archery, trying to understand cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Dave Barry, in the Miami Herald , has a tongue-in-cheek American view on cricket, and the archery Olympic event at Lord's.

Morne's Chihuahua

Feb 25, 2013: A boy and his dog are reunited; and five-ring frenzy takes over the UK

Olympics

Cricket a misfit in Olympics

Feb 25, 2013: Mihir Bose, in Outlook , writes why cricket is not likely to be a regular Olympic sport, pointing out the lack of incentive in administrators to allow cricket at the Olympics.

Indian cricket

Ganguly fires Olympian's dreams

Feb 25, 2013: Sourav Ganguly and Lord's have history

Olympics

'I'm gutted cricket is not in the Olympics'

Feb 25, 2013: Charlotte Edwards, the England women's captain, tells the London Evening Standard that she rues the fact that cricket isn't an Olympic sport, as it would give women's cricket the boost it needs to thrive.