Mike Holmans

What should the ECB do next summer?

Feb 25, 2013: This is the same ECB which arranged an England Performance Squad tour of India to coincide with the senior team’s tour before Christmas, a transparent way of making sure they would have a pool of reserves fit and acclimatised if they suddenly needed

England in West Indies 2009

We must maintain momentum

Feb 25, 2013: Nikita Miller

Trivia - bowling

The worst specialist bowlers in Test cricket, and the worst team

Feb 25, 2013: Some readers have suggested that I should look at the worst bowlers in Test cricket the same way I have looked at the worst specialist batsmen

England cricket

Clarke embarrassed after email farce

Feb 25, 2013: Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, has been subjected to further embarrassment after an email intended for him from Nigel Hilliard, the Essex chairman, was instead sent straight to the inbox of his most outspoken opponent, Leicestershire's Neil Davidson

Shootout in Lahore

Cricket in the post-Lahore attack era!

Feb 25, 2013: Kaleem Omar, writing in Pakistan's The News , presents a satirical take on the state of affairs in Pakistan cricket post-Lahore

Indian cricket

Is India's future being undermined by cheap bats?

Feb 25, 2013: A report in the Wisden Cricketer magazine says that India’s coaches are becoming increasingly worried by parents buying their children cheap but heavy bats because they last longer

Jenny Roesler at the 2009 Women's World Cup

Snippets from Sydney

Feb 25, 2013: As a Brit, I’m not alone in wanting to see the Sydney Opera House

India in New Zealand 2008-09

The dumbest thing I've ever done on a cricket field

Feb 25, 2013: Sixty one for six before lunch and I’m sitting in the changing room contemplating putting my pads on; that’s not how I envisaged this morning going.

Australia in South Africa 2008-09

South African depth a worry

Feb 25, 2013: South Africa may have developed into a good team, but not a good international squad

The confidence is high

Feb 25, 2013:

Pakistan cricket

Playing it unsafe

Feb 25, 2013: With no international cricket to be played in Pakistan in the forseeable future following on from the attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, the Gulf would be the closest thing the team would soon have to a ‘home ground’

India in New Zealand, 2008-09

The glue that binds the batting wall together

Feb 25, 2013:

India in New Zealand 2008-09

Looking forward to the five-dayers

Feb 25, 2013: We’re not looking for green seamers, but just something that we’ll be able to run in on, bowl hard and get the returns that you sometimes don’t get from one-day wickets

India in New Zealand, 2008-09

India aim to be Cinderella, not the ugly sister

Feb 25, 2013: India's three-Test contest in New Zealand will determine just how far this Indian team has progressed over the past two years, writes Dileep Premachandran in his Guardian blog

Cricket concerns

A matter of time

Feb 25, 2013: It is not unusual for sport to adjust its timing to suit the structure and space of television but Test matches starting at noon will still feel strange

Fiji

Six teams confirmed for Fiji's Easter tournament

Feb 25, 2013: Tony Munro

Interviews

"It was like – is this real?"

Feb 25, 2013: Darren Pattinson’s journey over the past year has gone from England Test bowler to Victorian club player

Cricket

India aim for cricket control

Feb 25, 2013: Mihir Bose, the BBC's sports editor, writes in his blog that the ICC never has, and never will, have the powers to come up with a solution, let alone impose it

Cricinfo

The reading room

Feb 25, 2013: It's only the second week and I am already running a day late in supplying my list of things you ought to read on ESPNcricinfo

Women's World Cup, 2009

Another step towards the World Cup final

Feb 25, 2013: I have to say I am really proud of the way New Zealand bounced back from the defeat against England to beat India today