Andrew McGlashan on England in West Indies, 2008-09

Let the music play, I'll just go top up

Feb 25, 2013:

Indian Premier League

Going to the movies ... sort of

Feb 25, 2013: When in India, go to the movies

Enjoying it while it lasts

Feb 25, 2013: It's not just the cricket one would miss (once one decides to call it a day), but also the days spent sweating it out for and with one’s team-mates on the field - even during practice sessions, spending hours on the roads, trains, flights and

Trivia - batting

Does the tail wag more inTests now?

Feb 25, 2013: During the last few Tests of 2008 I got the feeling that late order batsmen were playing rear-guard innings far more effectively than they normally do

ICC

The folly of the ICC's ways

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in the Times , Pat Gibson pretty much sums up what we all suspected about the reasons the unloved Sir Vivian Richards Stadium was ever built

Ethics and morality

The curious case of Mohammad Yousuf

Feb 25, 2013: Why should players be unable to hold ICL contracts and play international cricket

Pakistan cricket

A tall order for batsmen?

Feb 25, 2013: Mohammad Zahid and Aamer Nazir

India in New Zealand, 2008-09

Scary tales

Feb 25, 2013: India have had some sort of bogey when it comes to touring New Zealand

Australian cricket

Voges thinks quickly ... again

Feb 25, 2013: It seemed so spur of the moment

England in West Indies 2008-09

A century for respect

Feb 25, 2013: The start of the third Test in Antigua was important for Andrew Strauss and his century will help underpin the respect a captain needs from within the team, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

Andrew McGlashan on England in West Indies, 2008-09

Return of a long-lost friend

Feb 25, 2013: Finally this series is back into full swing

Australian cricket

The summer of the cheap cap

Feb 25, 2013: The rise and fall of Mark Cosgrove shows that Australia's scattergun approach to selection can do emerging players more harm than good, writes Robert Craddock in the Courier-Mail .

Australia in South Africa 2008-09

Australia's young talent free of excess baggage

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , feels Australia’s squad to South Africa boasts plenty of young talent, unfazed by distractions

Offbeat

Smells like Lord's

Feb 25, 2013: Playing at Lord's is the dream of many, but the privilege of a few

South African cricket

Smith didn't do it to be 'Captain Courageous'

Feb 25, 2013:

England in West Indies 2008-09

ARG as unready as Sir Viv Richards Stadium

Feb 25, 2013: There's been plenty of farce on the tour already but the Sunday Telegraph's Steve James thinks there could be more in store when the third Test gets underway

Australian cricket

Oldies dust off the bats for bushfire game

Feb 25, 2013:

Sri Lankan cricket

Can't bat, can't bowl... and can't field

Feb 25, 2013: Watching Yuvraj Singh gesture to the Indian dressing room after a century in Sri Lanka last week, SR Pathiravithana and a colleague arrived at the notion that this was a mirror image of the cricketing woes of Sri Lanka in the present context

Indian Premier League

Saving follow-ons

Feb 25, 2013: Amid warning bells, the second season of the IPL battens down the hatches, writes Arindam Mukherjee in Outlook

England in West Indies 2008-09

Sulieman Benn unconcerned by pressure

Feb 25, 2013: Simon Wilde of the Sunday Times catches up with West Indies' 6' 7" left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn, who starred in the first Test with an eight-wicket match haul