West Indies cricket

'I never rated Lara as a leader'

Feb 25, 2013: Brian Viner speaks to Michael Holding in The Independent .

Essex

Essex Academy to take on PCA Masters

Feb 25, 2013: The Essex Academy will face the PCA Masters in a Twenty20 floodlit challenge match on Thursday June 14.

World Cricket League

Argentina and Uganda into the final

Feb 25, 2013: Leave your thoughts

English cricket

Fame, drugs and rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2013: Warwickshire were on a high in 1994, winning an unprecedented three domestic trophies

Cricket & the Media

The good news

Feb 25, 2013: I can see it now: portable pitches (held together with glue), third-country venues, empty stadiums, and cross-eyed players wondering if it's Tuesday and Tangiers or Wednesday and consequently Riyadh?

A cricketers brush with fate

Feb 25, 2013: Mohammad Kaif has been out of the Indian team for exactly six months

Indian cricket

Prasad and Robin deserve proper contract

Feb 25, 2013: The Hindu's Vijay Lokapally believes that contracts to Venkatesh Prasad and Robin Singh, India's respective bowling and fielding coaches for the recent tour to Bangladesh, would help them concentrate on their jobs better.

France

Crusading through France

Feb 25, 2013: The Crusaders , an Australian team comprising former Test, first-class and league players, will travel to France to play a match just outside Paris on June 27 in their 42-day tour of Europe.

France

Crusading through France

Feb 25, 2013: The Crusaders , an Australian team comprising former Test, first-class and league players, will travel to France to play a match just outside Paris on June 27 in their 42-day tour of Europe.

World Cricket League

Argentina and Papua New Guinea into semi-finals

Feb 25, 2013: Argentina and Papua New Guinea (PNG) complete the semi-final line-up of the World Cricket League Division 3 after recording impressive victories on the last day of the group matches in Darwin

West Indies cricket

The sweet Big Bird of youth

Feb 25, 2013: The Guardian's Tanya Aldred reminisces about the 1984 West Indies tour of England, when she and her similarly agog brothers queued for the autograph of the mighty Joel Garner

Worcestershire

Hogg loaned to Worcestershire

Feb 25, 2013: Lancashire has agreed to loan Kyle Hogg, the allrounder, to Worcestershire

Bangladesh cricket

Leaving on a high

Feb 25, 2013: Dav Whatmore has been Bangladesh's most successful coach and the The Daily Star terms his departure from the post as a peaceful one, unlike the "sorry and painful departures of Indian Mohinder Amarnath, West Indies great Gordon Greenidge, South

Test Cricket

Their Tests, our Tests

Feb 25, 2013: There's a difference between cricket in England and Australia and cricket in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India

ICC

Worries over woeful West Indies

Feb 25, 2013: In The Australian , Malcolm Conn complains about the "parlous" state of world cricket, with West Indies not having won a Test since May 2005.

Surrey

Meet Mark Butcher and win Twenty20 tickets

Feb 25, 2013: If you want the chance to meet Mark Ramprakash and Mark Butcher, and head to Surrey's Twenty20 match at the Oval against Hampshire on Sunday, June 24, then enter our competition .

Scotland

Scotland risk expulsion from domestic competition

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English cricket

Call up Ramps for England

Feb 25, 2013: As Ryan Sidebottom was handed an unlikely call, the case for Mark Ramprakash to return to the Test arena has been made yet again

Leicestershire

Counties back Madeleine campaign

Feb 25, 2013: Leicestershire and Lancashire have teamed up to back a campaign to raise awareness of the search to find Madeleine McCann.

English cricket

Donald excited about consultant role

Feb 25, 2013: Allan Donald, who is going to be England's bowling consultant for the next five weeks, speaks to Donald McRae in The Guardian .