Australian cricket

Haddin plays through the pain

Feb 25, 2013: Brad Haddin is appearing in the third Test with a broken finger and Alex Brown reports in the Sydney Morning Herald about the injury.

ICC

ICC expands World Cricket League

Feb 25, 2013: The ICC has confirmed that the World Cricket League will be expanded from five to eight divisions after the 2009 World Cup Qualifiers.

Middlesex

Middlesex sign Simpson

Feb 25, 2013: John Simpson has signed a professional contract with Middlesex for the remainder of 2008 and 2009

Politics

Frustrated Ashraf fires a scattergun

Feb 25, 2013: Much of Ashraf's scattergun email at the team management fires bullets at targets that are outside his zone

ICC

Ireland to host inaugural World Twenty20 qualifiers

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland will host the inaugural World Twenty20 Qualifiers between August 2 and 4, with the top six Associates vying for the two places available to them in next year's ICC World Twenty20 in England.

English cricket

Stanford cash leaves bitter taste

Feb 25, 2013: On a day when the UK papers lead with more erosion of the country’s civil liberty, the sports pages ponder whether the ECB has sold its own soul to Allen Stanford, or if the move is the saving of the game.

IPL

The write stuff

Feb 25, 2013: People who had never read Neville Cardus were weeping in his memory

Australian cricket

Ponting rated Australia's most wanted

Feb 25, 2013:

Domestic cricket

Domestic revisions, and why Railways are the strongest side

Feb 25, 2013: I believe one way of getting talent fast-tracked in to the state sides is through Under-19 zonal tournaments

Trivia - batting

'Unfulfilled' team innings in ODI matches

Feb 25, 2013: A look at performances in ODIs in which teams didn't make use of all their resources, and ended up losing matches despite having plenty of wickets in hand

George Binoy at the Kitply Cup 2008

Yusuf falls short, Upton steals the show

Feb 25, 2013:

Twenty20

Is cricket selling its soul?

Feb 25, 2013: In the Guardian Brian Close and Tony Lewis debate whether Twenty20 is destroying the soul of cricket

Controlling the emotions in pursuit of excellence

Feb 25, 2013:

Australian cricket

Caribbean vibe stirs Ponting

Feb 25, 2013: In his column in the Australian Ricky Ponting tells of his love of the atmosphere when playing in the West Indies.

For the good of the game

Feb 25, 2013: Test cricket should be added to the burgeoning heritage industry, as a living, breathing, vibrant slice of 21st-Century culture that also encompasses a sense of history

West Indies cricket

Barbados isn’t losing its religion

Feb 25, 2013: Alex Brown, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , speaks to Sir Garfield Sobers in Barbados before travelling around the island looking for signs of the game’s health.

Kenya

Kenya's three-day become a two-day

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya has had to reschedule its planned three-day league because of the lack of availability of players.

USA

Conference demands 'remorse' from suspended six

Feb 25, 2013: The saga of the Midwest Cricket Conference’s suspension of six players rumbles on with an announcement that it required the players to email the “management” expressing “unequivocal remorse” and giving an assurance that they will “not in future,

Indian Premier League

Power corrupts, but money does more

Feb 25, 2013: Lalit Modi's decision to give the IPL franchises the first pick over international players for the Champions League has Neil Manthorp fuming

New Zealand cricket

NZ beaten down and battered

Feb 25, 2013: Dylan Cleaver gives a diary account of what he describes as a sad sad day for New Zealand cricket, after surrendering another series to England