England in West Indies 2008-09

Welcome to paradise

Feb 25, 2013: While India has its own charm in a crazy, polluted, rickshaw-laden way, Jamaica is laid back with a clean heat that makes you happy to be alive

Australian cricket

Warne snaps at snapper

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English cricket

Spectre of IPL auction hangs on England dressing room

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Sriram Veera on India in Sri Lanka 2009

Test cricket's slowest double-centurion

Feb 25, 2013: I don’t remember any of Brendon Kuruppu’s shots

England cricket

Panthers sighted in Middlesex

Feb 25, 2013: Middlesex’s decision to ditch their existing nickname – the Crusaders – in favour of a more paletable Panthers has not gone down well in certain quarters, mainly because Vinny Codrington, Middlesex’s CEO, let slip that one of the reasons was that a

Indian Premier League

India unsafe for Pakistan players

Feb 25, 2013: Pakistan's decision not to send their players to India for the IPL's second season could be a prudent one at a time when crowds in stadiums could turn hostile towards professional athletes from the country, Sharda Ugra writes in her blog Free Hit

Brazil

Brazil's women wide of the mark

Feb 25, 2013: Argentina cruised to a seven-wicket win over Brazil with eight overs to spare in a women’s Twenty20 international in Buenos Aires.

Indonesia

Indonesia aiming to be the next Afghanistan

Feb 25, 2013: While all attention is on Afghanistan and their seemingly relentless progress towards the 2011 World Cup, their success story has served to inspire others around globe.

Sriram Veera on India in Sri Lanka 2009

Welcome to Lanka Bala

Feb 25, 2013: Balaji meets old friends and foes in Colombo

English cricket

Mind games

Feb 25, 2013: Is cricket played as much with the head as with bat and ball

Andrew McGlashan on England in West Indies, 2008-09

In snow motion

Feb 25, 2013: There was a good smattering of Barmy Army, wearing the T-shirts of previous overseas adventures, who by the time we were half way across the Atlantic were starting up conversations with the locals on board

New Zealand in Australia 2008-09

'Even this useless mob can beat them'

Feb 25, 2013: Can't beat the feeling of defeating Australia in their own backyard

New Zealand cricket

New Zealand outcry over Haddin 'dismissal'

Feb 25, 2013: Jonathan Millmow says in the Dominion Post Brad Haddin plumbed new depths by disturbing the bails with his gloves for the "bowled" of Neil Broom in Sunday's one-day match.

Australian cricket

New teams for Australia's transition

Feb 25, 2013: With Australia in trouble and missing their captain, Peter Roebuck names an alternate team in the Sydney Morning Herald .

Sri Lankan cricket

'Ranatunga had problems with all' - Lokuge

Feb 25, 2013: Gamini Lokuge, the Sri Lanka sports minister, has been involved in a lof of cricket controversies during his ongoing term, the most recent being a defamation suit filed by Arjuna Ranatunga, who he sacked as Sri Lanka Cricket's interim committee chief

England in West Indies 2008-09

Harmison back to where it began

Feb 25, 2013: The first Test of the Wisden Trophy is in Jamiaca, the scene of Steve Harmison's greatest triumph - the 7 for 12 that destroyed West Indies five years ago

Michael Jeh

A captain's break

Feb 25, 2013: For Ponting to take an unscheduled break at this particular point of the season when Australia have lost four games on the trot is just poor timing

Australian cricket

Haddin joins Chappell and Dyer in New Zealand folklore

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Australian cricket

Empty threats 'save' Symonds

Feb 25, 2013: One of the problems in the maverick life of Andrew Symonds is that no one in Australian cricket is prepared to pull him into line, Robert Craddock writes in the Courier-Mail .

Afghanistan

Hamid Hassan - All set for celebrations in Kabul

Feb 25, 2013: It is hard to describe how excited I am at Afghanistan reaching the World Cup Qualifiers