Women's cricket

World champions. And we'll never forget it.

Feb 25, 2013: We spent last night celebrating our victory

Jenny Roesler at the 2009 Women's World Cup

Celebrating the end of World Cup in Sydney

Feb 25, 2013: The final had long been won, but one England player was still on the pitch, practising her batting for fun with a group of mates

Uganda

Uganda call on services of motivational speaker

Feb 25, 2013: Uganda's principle aim in the forthcoming World Cup Qualifiers is to earn themselves ODI status (read the full piece with their captain, Junior Kwebiha, here .) However, they've gone one step further in their quest by bringing on board a

Associates

Associates continue preparations in South Africa

Feb 25, 2013: The preparations for the ICC World Cup Qualifiers continued in South Africa at the weekend.

India in New Zealand, 2008-09

NZ tour has played out nicely for India

Feb 25, 2013: India’s first Test win in New Zealand in 33 years was momentous on many levels not least of which the fact that the side started a series abroad assuredly, writes S

Women's cricket

Women's sport treated as a slideshow

Feb 25, 2013: Andy Burnham, writing in the Independent after England Women won the World Cup final against New Zealand Women, tries to explain the reasons behind the lack of publicity for the women's game in England.

Indian Premier League

Cricket hijacked

Feb 25, 2013: An editorial comment in the Indian Express criticises the BCCI on its decision to stage this year's IPL outside of India and says the Indian fans' interests were simply kept out of the agenda while making this move.

Politics

IPL must support Pakistan's cricketers

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Extras

Leg Spinners – A statistical assessment

Feb 25, 2013: From S

West Indies cricket

Chanderpaul Drive

Feb 25, 2013: Following on from being named Guyana's sport personality of 2008, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has again been shown the love of his countrymen by having a street named after him in Georgetown.

World cricket

Curiouser and curiouser

Feb 25, 2013: From Andrew Hughes, United Kingdom South Africa thumped Australia in their own backyard

Cricket concerns

An unhealthy obsession with the Ashes

Feb 25, 2013: The way large sections of the English cricket establishment have managed to work themselves up over Kent signing Stuart Clark for the first part of the next summer is a needless distraction and reeks of hypocrisy

England in West Indies 2009

We have to keep positive and focused

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England in West Indies 2008-09

Illogical regulations

Feb 25, 2013: In England's freakish victory over West Indies in the first ODI, where coach Dyson called his players back after miscalculating the D/L par score, regulation took precedence over common sense once again, writes Vic Marks in the Observer :

India in New Zealand 2008-09

Lose talk

Feb 25, 2013: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I hate losing

India in New Zealand, 2008-09

There's no holding pattern in India

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India in New Zealand, 2008-09

No First Test Blues for aggressive India

Feb 25, 2013: Hamilton is important both for itself, and for what it says about the recent Indian teams

Indian domestic cricket

Are domestic players paid well?

Feb 25, 2013: Dear Readers,

Sidharth Monga on India in New Zealand 2008-09

The lure of rugby

Feb 25, 2013: There are perks of living in a motel next to the Waikato Stadium, but not when the Chiefs v Blues rugby game is scheduled one-and-a-half hours after India win their first Test in New Zealand in more than 33 years

Brazil

Brazil's fascinating tryst with cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Vincent Bastick