LV= County Championship, Thursday August 9

Feb 25, 2013: 6.15pm: Mark Pennell at Canterbury Kent v Essex

South Africa in England 2012

A tricky build-up to Lord's

Feb 25, 2013: Stephen Brenkley, in the Independent , says the latest situation involving Kevin Pietersen and the England team has made the build-up to the Lord's Test much trickier.

LV= County Championship, Wednesday August 8

Feb 25, 2013: 6.41pm: Mark Pennell at Canterbury Kent v Essex

English cricket

How do you solve a problem like Pietersen?

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Selvey in the Guardian writes that if Pietersen, as he has indicated, walks away from Test cricket, England will be deprived of a linchpin of the side that still stands as the world's best in two of three formats

South Africa in England 2012

The dependable Mr Kallis

Feb 25, 2013: South Africa’s Jacques Kallis is the most dependable cricketer on the planet, says Scyld Berry in the Daily Telegraph , and he has still got some cricket left in him.

Indian cricket

A captain who was ahead of his time

Feb 25, 2013: Makarand Waingankar profiles former India captain GS Ramchand , whom he describes as the ideal captain "with a mind so grounded, a nature devoted to remove problems and a temperament which avoided overconfidence while never losing confidence." More

KP's not bigger than England, but he's the biggest thing in the team

Feb 25, 2013: Take away the saga-meister and what do Flower and Co have left?

Don't rob us all of KP

Feb 25, 2013: Recently I heard Michael Holding say players are children and boards are parents. It was about the disastrous relationship the WICB have with their senior players

English cricket

Will the mandarins snuff out Pietersen?

Feb 25, 2013: It appears that Pietersen appears poised to lose his battle against authority, and English cricket will have driven away another talent while the men in authority continue in their unrepentant ways

LV= County Championship, Tuesday August 7

Feb 25, 2013: 5.30pm: Alex Winter at Somerset v Nottinghamshire

South Africa in England 2012

Graeme Smith seizes the initiative

Feb 25, 2013: Following Stuart Broad's five-wicket burst on the fifth day at Headingley, England would have been looking forward to the third Test at Lord's with a smile, according to Vic Marks

West Indies cricket

Chris Gayle reloaded

Feb 25, 2013: Chris Gayle is is back and looking good at the highest level, says Richard Lord in the Wall Street Journal , and politics shouldn't ever again be allowed to cause players with his amount of box-office appeal to be adrift in the international

Sri Lanka cricket

Remembering Sri Lanka's Abu Fuard

Feb 25, 2013: Hafiz Marikar, in Sri Lanka's Nation , on former Sri Lankan first-class cricketer and administrator Abu Fuard, who died in July.

New Zealand cricket

Is Vettori New Zealand's best Test bowler?

Feb 25, 2013: Without the need to try and attack Vettori, the subtleties that are so effective in the one-day game prove less effective in Tests. Does his all-round contributions mask his lack of impact at the bowling crease?

Ian Bell and the naked truth

Feb 25, 2013: There was a time when I thought that instead of playing Test Cricket; Ian Bell should be oiled up, naked and playing his cover drive in a giant birdcage at parties

South Africa in England 2012

The Pietersen v Steyn spectacle

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Selvey, writing in the Guardian , recalls the Dale Steyn-Kevin Pietersen brief-but-exhilerating clash from the 2010 World Twenty20, and draws comparisons with it after the two faced off once more at Headingley on Saturday.

South Africa in England 2012

Unexpected bullies must finish the job

Feb 25, 2013: South African sort of tripped, fell, hurt themselves and had other things on their minds as the first Test started.

LV= County Championship, Saturday August 4, 2012

Feb 25, 2013: 4.25pm: Myles Hodgson at Lancashire v Somerset.

India in Sri Lanka 2012

Lonely Hambantota, lovely Pallekele

Feb 25, 2013: Hambantota and Pallekele. Two names we had heard frequently and always together in the run up to the 2011 World Cup, as the locations for the new stadiums Sri Lanka was building

England v South Africa 2012

Laws for fairytale giants

Feb 25, 2013: Surely they need to be different from those for commonfolk. Time to give Steven Finn an exemption, then