Security concerns

Era of safety guarantees is over

Feb 25, 2013:

Australian cricket

Blue singlet bowlers drive Baggy Greens

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Lalor, writing in the Australian , looks at Australia’s blue-singlet, working-class bowling attack.

Ethics and morality

This is the end

Feb 25, 2013:

Lahore terror attack

"Terrible and very sad' - Miandad

Feb 25, 2013: "It has never happened before in Pakistan, sports persons haven’t been targeted," Javed Miandad told GEO TV

Lahore terror attack

Two car bombs defused

Feb 25, 2013: Pakistan police’s disposal unit inspector Abdul Ghafoor said that two car bombs had been defused, one at Liberty Square and the other at Firdus Park.

Lahore terror attack

Dominic Cork won't be returning to Pakistan

Feb 25, 2013: Dominic Cork, who is commentating on the match in Lahore, spoke to Sky News: "I won't be coming back here while I'm still living

Lahore terror attack

Concerns have come home to roost - Dickason

Feb 25, 2013: Reg Dickason, the security expert hired by England and Australia, said " A lot of concerns we raised during the Champions Trophy have unfortunately come home to roost

Lahore terror attack

How the attack happened

Feb 25, 2013: The Sri Lankans were on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium when their bus was attacked by five armed terrorists near Liberty market

Lahore terror attack

Indians in NZ shocked

Feb 25, 2013: NDTV are reporting that there's shock among the players in the Indian dressing room in New Zealand ...

Lahore terror attack

BCCI, CA condem attacks

Feb 25, 2013: The BCCI issued a release expressing its "sorrow and anguish over the dastardly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team at Lahore

Lahore terror attack

Samaraweera, Paravitarana most seriously hurt

Feb 25, 2013: Our sources tell us Samaraweera and Paravitarana were the ones most seriously injured and have been taken to hospital

Lahore terror attack

Team to take first available flight home

Feb 25, 2013: Sri Lanka's foreign secretary Palitha Cohona has confirmed that the team will return today

Lahore terror attack

Sri Lankan team to be evacuated

Feb 25, 2013: Ijaz Butt, the PCB chief, has said the Test has been called off

Lahore terror attack

SL cricketers attacked by terrorists in Lahore

Feb 25, 2013: Terror struck at the heart of cricket when masked gunmen attacked the bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore

Australia in South Africa 2008-09

Applause for an attack that finishes the job

Feb 25, 2013: Previously, Australia could grind down opponents, crush them with five hours of intensity

England in West Indies 2008-09

A sadistic slab of real estate

Feb 25, 2013: On a drab pitch at the Kensington Oval, Fidel Edwards' figures of 3 for 192 don't do justice to the way he toiled on an unforgivable surface

Extras

Facebook for cricket

Feb 25, 2013: From Barath Coleppa, United States A few months ago, I read a rather funny piece in a random blog on how the Nazi Germans would have kept updating their facebook profiles as WWII progressed

Afghanistan

Afghanistan gear up for 2010 South Asian Games

Feb 25, 2013: Tony Munro

Ranji one-dayers 2008-09

Absorbing Agartala

Feb 25, 2013: There’s something peculiar about the houses in this part of the country

Pitches

The good draw and the bad draw

Feb 25, 2013: I have a simple rule to judge a good Test: it must carry the possibility of a result till lunch on the last day