New Zealand cricket

NSW date could end up in bad taste file

Feb 25, 2013: More on Brendon McCullum's signing for New South Wales and the repercussions it has on the global game.This time it is from Paul Lewis in the New Zealand Herald , who says that there's something here that doesn't sit right

England in West Indies 2008-09

Sacrifice the solution to the non-stop slog

Feb 25, 2013: Fixture congestion means that Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff should not play in the IPL this year, writes Vic Marks in the Observer

Interviews

The voice of reason

Feb 25, 2013: Michael Holding is worried about the future of the game

Interviews

On hindsight

Feb 25, 2013:

New Zealand cricket

Selection policy is nuts... and Boults

Feb 25, 2013: Dylan Cleaver questions the composition of New Zealand's ODI squad for Australia, with the inclusion of Brendon Diamanti and Trent Boult over more experienced players

Australian cricket

Short-term liaison for game’s three formats

Feb 25, 2013: Tim Lane, writing in the Sunday Age , worries that the modern game is more about fast money and is unsure how long Tests, ODIs and Twenty20s can live together.

Australian cricket

Greybeard Matthews upstages Jaques

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Bangladesh cricket

Shakib up close

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Michael Jeh

What is not Australian?

Feb 25, 2013: What about the fact that if the Deccan Chargers reach the final against his beloved Qld Bulls (if they hadn’t been knocked out), Symonds would be happily playing against his own mates, against the team that nurtured him to his current stardom

Offbeat

Afghanistan cricket team: a team called hope

Feb 25, 2013: Their country is riven by war, their side was formed in exile and they don’t even have a home pitch

England in West Indies 2008-09

Banter and the odd bouncer

Feb 25, 2013: The Guardian 's Mike Selvey says from St Kitts that Andrew Strauss could make life easier for himself if he makes the difficult decisions England require to flourish on the Caribbean tour

Beyond the Blues

How I wrote Beyond the Blues

Feb 25, 2013: It was a landmark season with Delhi winning the Ranji Trophy after 16 years, North Zone clinching the Duleep Trophy, and me ending up being the highest run-scorer

Australian cricket

Symonds says McCullum is a lump of what?

Feb 25, 2013: So sometimes it’s a bit hard to make sense of Andrew Symonds, but his radio interview with Australian comedians Roy and HG on Triple M on Friday was particularly hard to work out

Australian cricket

McCullum move shows there are no rules in Twenty20

Feb 25, 2013: In the Age Greg Baum writes that in Twenty20 every team has its price

Mike Holmans

Anyone for cricket?

Feb 25, 2013: England start as favourites, a position they usually dislike but will have to learn to cope with if they are ever to fulfil their stated ambitions

Australian cricket

Long road ends in reward for Osborne

Feb 25, 2013: Jamie Pandaram talks to Erin Osborne, the 19-year-old spinner selected in Australia’s World Cup squad, for the Sydney Morning Herald

Trivia - batting

A ranking system for Test openers

Feb 25, 2013: How do today's great opening batsmen like Hayden, Sehwag and Smith compare with those of the past like Hobbs, Gavaskar and Sutcliffe

What's in a name?

Feb 25, 2013: So cricket won't be India's national sport - not for the moment, at least

Player diaries

The chance of a lifetime

Feb 25, 2013: Billy MacDermott - Argentina captain

England cricket

Silence of the Vaughan

Feb 25, 2013: Cuts across the editorial departments of most of the UK’s national newspapers have been well documented, with the Daily Telegraph being among the leaders, cutting back many established journalists while hiring past and present players to plug