England in West Indies 2008-09

Bell in line for Test despite Shah's surge

Feb 25, 2013: England's team for the final warm-up match against West Indies A, should have come as no surprise

Australian cricket

Symonds deserves sympathy not scorn

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Symonds could lose his career over a radio prank

Australian cricket

Phillip v Phil for Test spot

Feb 25, 2013: Phillip Hughes and Phil Jaques are pushing to replace Matthew Hayden in the Test team

Duleep Trophy, 2008-09

No longer the national tournament

Feb 25, 2013: Now that the Ranji format has changed it has become a national tournament in the true sense of the word

XIs

World’s Dullest XI, part 1 (Appendix)

Feb 25, 2013: Tomorrow will bring the long-awaited announcement of numbers 7 to 11 in the Confectionery Stall Post-1981 All-Time Dullest World XI, putting tedious cricketers and lovers of tedious cricket out of their misery at last

World Cricket League

Brazier bowls PNG to third straight win

Feb 25, 2013: Papua New Guinea won their third match in a row, defeating Uganda by 26 runs at Belgrano while Afghanistan beat the hosts, Argentina, on the third day of the World Cricket League

West Indies cricket

No Holding back

Feb 25, 2013: England will do well on their 10-week tour of the West Indies, but they will be fortunate that they will not be up against a team that's at its strongest at the moment

Dravid loves to tell the tale

Feb 25, 2013: With the tour to Pakistan called off, most of the Indian team had a month’s break from international cricket and they used the precious time to pursue some personal interests

Australian cricket

Warne's musical pitches up new audience

Feb 25, 2013: Shane Warne has helped revive the art of leg spin, sell millions of copies of News of the World and make ‘blond and overweight’ a combination irresistible to women

New Zealand cricket

All that Baz

Feb 25, 2013:

England in West Indies 2008-09

The mysterious case of Owais Shah

Feb 25, 2013: Owais Shah is in danger of becoming the most high-profile casualty of England's desperation for Ian Bell to succeed at No

Afghanistan

Hamid Hassan - I need to learn Spanish

Feb 25, 2013: We are all so relieved that we managed to beat Hong Kong on Sunday to get ourselves back into the tournament and give us a chance of getting a place in the World Cup Qualifiers

Ain't no mountain high enough

Feb 25, 2013:

South Africa in Australia 2008-09

Good on yer, South Africa

Feb 25, 2013: Many Australian critics, typically recapturing their gung-ho voices not long after the dust settled on the Test portion, quickly latched on to Johan Botha’s status as leader as a source of mystery and potential weakness

New Zealand cricket

NZC walking a tightrope

Feb 25, 2013: New Zealand Cricket has decided to waste more time, effort and, no doubt, money in its latest attempt to reinvent the wheel, writes Lynn McConnell in the Sportal website

England in West Indies 2008-09

A role model for Strauss

Feb 25, 2013: The Guardian 's David Foot wonders which former captain would be an ideal role model for Andrew Strauss.

Australia v South Africa 2008-09

Fast-tracked Australians

Feb 25, 2013: South Africa's series-clinching win over Australia on January 26 - Australia Day - was special for the country's cricket fans, for it followed the historic Test win on what has been an epic tour Down Under

Captaincy

Malik is no Mike so end the misery

Feb 25, 2013: Shoaib Malik is no Mike Brearley, which would be his only ticket out of this mess

The drugs don't work for tourism

Feb 25, 2013: The internet can do wonders in helping to promote a place to the world, but it also has a down side – just ask Hastings, the south coast town in England.

West Indies cricket

West Indies cricket in hard times

Feb 25, 2013: Oliver Brett, writing for the BBC Cricket website, analyses the continuing decline of cricket in the Caribbean in the aftermath of the 2007 World Cup, reflected by the lack of sponsors in the domestic circuit and the sport's rapidly dwindling