Kenya

Kenya head to South Africa

Feb 25, 2013: Kenya’s preparations for April’s ICC World Cup Qualifiers, which got off to a dreadful start with a 5-0 whitewashing by Zimbabwe, continues when they head to South Africa for ten days.

Brydon Coverdale on Australia in South Africa 2008-09

Aussie Rules in South Africa?

Feb 25, 2013: Is there no escape from the AFL

Sidharth Monga on India in New Zealand 2008-09

Thinking New Zealand

Feb 25, 2013: Some random thoughts while on the way to New Zealand - seven different airports, various hotel transfers and immigration checks, and far too many flights

England cricket

Blunt Yorkshiremen

Feb 25, 2013: Yorkshire-Derbyshire might not rank as one of cricket’s greatest rivalries, but there is clearly someone at the Sheffield Star (motto “Serving South Yorkshire”) with a chip on their shoulder and no end of cross-border bitterness.

When a draw equals a victory

Feb 25, 2013:

Indian cricket

It's not too late for the CCI

Feb 25, 2013: There's still perhaps time for the Cricket Club of India (CCI) to negotiate a fair deal with IPL that will be in the best interests of their world-renowned club and the game of cricket, as well as Mumbai's cricket fanatics for whom there is no

The Stanford saga

Allen Stanford debacle confirms sport is a whore

Feb 25, 2013: As the whole Sir Allen Stanford business goes up in smoke and he becomes the latest billionaire lurking behind an impenetrable thicket of alleged lies, let's not blame poor alleged Sir A for being a monumental power-drunk, publicity-crazed vulgarian

England in West Indies 2008-09

Fragile Flintoff can only watch as firebrand Broad steps into his role

Feb 25, 2013: Although clearly in pain from his injured right hip, Andrew Flintoff bowled on a tense final day in Antigua, sending down two spells before leaving the field wicketless

India in New Zealand, 2008-09

The time has come

Feb 25, 2013: The relative low success rate of teams travelling to New Zealand may have much to do with looking upon the assignment as just another tour

Age of Khan

A test of inexperience

Feb 25, 2013:

Israel

Israeli tennis issue serves as warning to ICC

Feb 25, 2013: At the moment the row is limited to tennis, but Dubai's refusal to allow Israeli player Shahar Peer a visa to play in the Dubai WTA event should serve as a warning to the ICC, who moved its headquarters to the UAE in 2005

ECB: egg on its face, in its hair, all over its jacket...

Feb 25, 2013: The current 'legal glitch' in Allen Stanford’s business proceedings has cast something of a shadow over the Antigua Test, a shadow in the shape of ECB chairman Giles Clarke’s eyebrows rising further and further up his head.

Stanford Super Series

Just as Sir Allen thought it couldn't get any worse

Feb 25, 2013: It is not just the USA federal agents who would like to know the whereabouts of Allen Stanford right now

New Zealand cricket

Key must stop tour of Zimbabwe

Feb 25, 2013: An editorial in the New Zealand Herald says that the country's government should not allow the tour of Zimbabwe to go ahead.

Brydon Coverdale on Australia in South Africa 2008-09

Hitching a ride to Potchefstroom

Feb 25, 2013: The Australian players love Potchefstroom, even if some of them struggle to pronounce it

India in New Zealand 2008-09

Cutting it fine

Feb 25, 2013: You rarely find the Indian team in any state of anxiety these days, such has been their on-field form, but there was palpable tension when they boarded the bus at their hotel en route to the airport for the flight to New Zealand early on Thursday

Hong Kong

Hong Kong face tough decisions on loan

Feb 25, 2013: Plans by the Hong Kong Cricket Association (HKCA) to borrow more than US$125,000 to help build a more professional organisation by hiring a full-time chief executive may proceed despite the international economic crisis.

The Stanford saga

Allen Stanford: a sorry tale of greed and shame

Feb 25, 2013: The behaviour of those infatuated by Stanford's riches was, frankly, the worst aspect of the whole saga: from the ECB officials, who fawned over him when he descended the steps of his helicopter at Lord's, to the former greats, who knelt down and

England in West Indies 2008-09

England keep an eye on Gayle

Feb 25, 2013: The most pivotal wicket in this series is undoubtedly Chris Gayle's and his dismissal in the second innings in Antigua is an example of how England's plans against him are working, writes Vic Marks in the Guardian

Andrew McGlashan on England in West Indies, 2008-09

Vote unquote

Feb 25, 2013: Election fever has hit Antigua (and Barbuda)