Irish cricket

Sunny days aren't here again

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland were, in many ways, the story of the World Cup

Pakistan cricket

The last moments of this man's life

Feb 25, 2013: Bob Woolmer's death sparked off a storm of speculation and rumour unlike any seen in cricket before

We wanted to finish it in 20 overs

Feb 25, 2013: Denesh Ramdin

Why Twenty20 vision is impaired

Feb 25, 2013: Much as I’d love to see such games played over two innings per side – cricket without second chances is like a BLT sandwich without the B - I have few quibbles with the philosophy or the format

Scotland

Lack of cash could lead to Scottish decline

Feb 25, 2013: Scotland's World Cup cricket captain, Craig Wright, has voiced his fear that the sport has hit a "glass ceiling" in his homeland and that, barring some significant new investment for the leading players, he could foresee the Scots starting to slip

English cricket

Collingwood embarks on a long road

Feb 25, 2013: England begin rebuilding their ODI side from scratch

Saluting the equivocal Englishmen

Feb 25, 2013: One is generally regarded as a byword for nerdiness and prima donnaesque truculence, the other as the flat-track bully who couldn’t stop Australians kicking sand in his face, the underachievers’ underachiever

Yorkshire

Yorkshire launch Trueman statue appeal

Feb 25, 2013: An appeal is to be launched to fund the erection of a statue of Fred Trueman

Ireland

Johnston rallies his troops

Feb 25, 2013: Trent Johnston, Ireland's captain, has challenged his young squad to produce the goods against the might of India who they face in a one-dayer on Saturday at Stormont, Belfast

Twenty20

Twenty20 selling tickets, but not the game's soul

Feb 25, 2013: Patrick Kidd in The Times writes that the Twenty20 Cup, which starts today, has grown from a gimmick into a fully-fledged and respected competition.

New age

Dav's the man

Feb 25, 2013: Dav's the man from this Australian shortlist, but as usual the PCB has managed to supervise the process in such a way that you wonder how they ruled out some of the other promising candidates?

Twenty20

Players fight for rights at Twenty20 World Championship

Feb 25, 2013: Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun the international players’ association and the ICC have not agreed on terms for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa in September.

Netherlands

Kashif withdraws from Netherlands squad

Feb 25, 2013: Offspinner Muhammad Kashif has withdrawn from the Netherlands side for the tour to Canada because of a family bereavement

Belgium

MCC head to Belgium

Feb 25, 2013: MCC start a tour of Belgium - where cricket was first played in 1815, between British Army officers before the Battle of Waterloo - on Friday (June 22).

USA

USA looks to the next generation

Feb 25, 2013: More than 200 cricketers from all across North America, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are converging on Cupertino in the Bay Area for the largest cricket tournament to be staged on North American soil

Essex

Like an empty vase

Feb 25, 2013: The importance of Andy Flower to Essex can be truly appreciated only now he has gone

Worcestershire

Jaques returns home

Feb 25, 2013: Worcestershire's Australian opening batsman Phil Jaques will miss the first four games of the Twenty20 Cup after returning home for "family reasons''.

The man who should have been king

Feb 25, 2013: Adam Hollioake led a star-deprived, profoundly maverick but one-for-all XI to victory in the 1997-98 Champions Trophy, the only one-day pot England have won in a tournament featuring more than three sides

English cricket

Bad behaviour highlights loss of silent witness

Feb 25, 2013: The Daily Telegraph's Michael Henderson, who had a pop at crowd behaviour at Old Trafford last week, widens his brief and lambastes the way that crowds approach cricket-watching

Looking forward to some Twenty20 action

Feb 25, 2013: Chris Gayle