Two Men in a Brewery

Feb 25, 2013: With a cautious nod and eyes wide open with suspicion he shuffled into the room, not like Garry Sobers or Dick Diver or the Great Gatsby but like the man he actually was, a man with a serious job at a brewery

Twenty20: the weekday wonder

Feb 25, 2013: In Chicago in early 2002, some members of the Midwest Cricket Conference decided that one 40-over game per week, on either Saturday or Sunday, wasn't sufficient cricket

Australian cricket

Overrated and overpaid

Feb 25, 2013: Australian cricket has lost its mojo mainly because it lacks the talent but also because it's become soft and indulgent

Australia

Dravid's humanitarian gesture

Feb 25, 2013: And why Australia have no choice but to win the Ashes

New Zealand cricket

Astle's driving on a different track

Feb 25, 2013: Not content with holding the record for the fastest Test double-century, Nathan Astle is satisfying his need for speed in the world of sprint car racing

Batting for baseball

Feb 25, 2013: Two weeks ago, my blogging colleague Samarth Shah dedicated a post to the Woodley fields in Los Angeles

Indian cricket

The charm of the Ranji Trophy

Feb 25, 2013: A chance to throw down a few balls at a batsman eager for practice; extended photo-ops with international cricketers; and the opportunity to view a new talent before he is spotted by the rest of the world - the Ranji Trophy is fine the way it is,

Bangladesh cricket

Shakib or Mortaza?

Feb 25, 2013: Shakib Al Hasan's stellar leadership against New Zealand has given the Bangladesh selectors an interesting dilemma when Mashrafe Mortaza returns

ODIs

ODI wins: with oodles of resources to spare

Feb 25, 2013: An analysis of the biggest ODI wins batting first and chasing

Hussey searching for form of relaxation

Feb 25, 2013: Future fans and boffins might well dwell on the day, yesterday, that Ricky Ponting added this interesting yet eerie nugget to the collective cricketing wisdom

Samir Chopra

Cricket and the Goldilocks Principle: The Question of Governance

Feb 25, 2013: I finished reading two excellent books over the weekend: Gideon Haigh's latest, Sphere of Influence , and David Post's Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the States of Cyberspace

Ashes talk? Please, god, make it stop

Feb 25, 2013: Oh for a “not say anything” policy, imposed immediately

English cricket

Stanford: two years on

Feb 25, 2013: November 1 marked an anniversary that passed many people by and one that the ECB are still trying to forget

World Cricket League Division Eight

Squads named for inaugural WCL Division 8

Feb 25, 2013: The squads for the inaugural World Cricket League Division 8 tournament, to be held in Kuwait from November 6 to 12, have been announced

Medal from first ever Test to go on auction

Feb 25, 2013: As England and Australia prepare to wage war with the Ashes just three weeks away, a gold medal presented during the first ever official Test match , between James Lillywhite’s England and a combined Australia XI in Melbourne 133 years ago, will

Ashes

'Australia just aren't very good'

Feb 25, 2013: It's a widely acknowledged fact that England have their best chance of winning in Australia for more than 20 years and the British press pack is getting pretty bullish about the team's chances

The hollow words of Andrew Strauss

Feb 25, 2013: You knew another Ashes summer was upon us when England’s captain Andrew Strauss, in a moment of children-pushing-toy-submarines-round-a-bathtub inanity, said that for ten weeks and five Test matches two cricket sides would be “at war”

Indian domestic cricket

Ranji in the times of IPL

Feb 25, 2013: India’s real premier league - the Ranji Trophy - started yesterday with no fans, and no fanfare, writes Kunal Pradhan in the Mirror .

Rajasthan v Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ranji Trophy Plale League, 2010-11

A bowler in the Manoj Prabhakar mould

Feb 25, 2013: Bowling Hyderabad out for 21 came as a bit of a shock for us

Mike Holmans

Is Collingwood underrated?

Feb 25, 2013: Paul Collingwood is never going to be regarded as one of the greats, but reviewing his career has convinced me that he deserves more respect than he has generally had.