Kenya

Kenya to host India and Twenty20s

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya has confirmed that India A will tour Kenya in late July or early August to play two four-day matches as well as taking part in a one-day series which will involve at least one other country's A team.

Indian cricket

A much-improved Panesar regales, observes Kartik

Feb 25, 2013: Murali Kartik, plying his trade for Middlesex this season, tells The Indian Express that Monty Panesar's ability to the English audience spellbound has been very special, and that the chats they've had have been centered around spin bowling

The downside of heroism

Feb 25, 2013: Had it not been for the torpor and ennui instigated by May and Cowdrey in 1957, it is tempting to wonder whether the clamour for the limited-overs revolution would have been so fervent

English cricket

A milestone unlikely to be reached again

Feb 25, 2013: Spectators watching Worcestershire play Warwickshire in England's county championship very likely had the privilege of seeing a cricket feat performed for the last time, writes Huw Richards in The International Herald Tribune

Ireland

Peter Gillespie retires

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Gillespie has retired from international cricket after 124 appearances for Ireland.

Indian cricket

Chandigarh gets a fresh lease of cricketing life, courtesy HCA

Feb 25, 2013: After 14 years, Chandigarh's Sector-16 Stadium is likely to host its first one-day international when Australia tour India for a seven-match series later this year

English cricket

Botham spirit alive and well in Durham

Feb 25, 2013:

Bob Woolmer

Behind the headlines

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Indian cricket

Bedi arm-balls Gavaskar

Feb 25, 2013: "Gavaskar's bete noire Bishan Singh Bedi says the 58-year-old wants to be the ultimate god of Indian cricket, thinks of himself as bigger than the game," writes G Rajaraman in scathing piece at OutlookIndia .

English cricket

The wild knight

Feb 25, 2013: David Gower pays tribute to his team-mate Sir Ian Botham in The Sunday Times .

New Zealand cricket

Who's next in line?

Feb 25, 2013: Hamish Marshall has become the first New Zealand player to turn his back on a national contract

Geared up to play hard cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Coming out of the last Test match at Old Trafford, although we lost, there were a lot of positives that we could take from that match

Kenya

Kenyan board suspends Centrals province

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket Kenya (CK) has suspended its Central province ahead of next month's board elections.

West Indies cricket

Nation on Film: West Indies 1976 tour of England

Feb 25, 2013: A Nation on Film special on the BBC (UK) aired this evening, looking back at West Indies' tour of England in 1976.

Ireland

Ireland announce depleted ODI squad

Feb 25, 2013: Ireland have announced a severely depleted 13-man squad for their one-dayers against India and South Africa due to get under way on June 23

Stats

The Bell Curve?

Feb 25, 2013: Writing in The Guardian , Ian Bell stumbles across a statistic:

Indian cricket

Professionals don't need to warm-up

Feb 25, 2013: While commenting on the Ford fiasco , Harsha Bhogle also brings up other concerns in his column in the Indian Express .

Commentary

The Full Monty

Feb 25, 2013: Sport may be trivial, however it doesn't mean we have to trivialise people's names, be it Mudhsuden or Sonny, Femi or Muhammad, writes Fazeer Mohammed in The Trinidad Express

Bad weather looms over Chester-le-Street

Feb 25, 2013: Chris Gayle

Hampshire

Hampshire put semi-final tickets on sale

Feb 25, 2013: Hampshire have announced that tickets are on sale for their Friends Provident semi-final against Warwickshire on June 20.