World Cup 2007

How the squash ball could have helped

Feb 25, 2013:

English cricket

Vaughan adds to England turmoil

Feb 25, 2013:

English cricket

Trescothick relaxed...and nearly ready

Feb 25, 2013:

Sussex

Robinson: Sussex have no excuses

Feb 25, 2013: Mark Robinson, the director of cricket as Sussex, refuses to excuse his side - the Championship holders - for their poor start to the season

Australian cricket

'I believe we have set new standards in the game'

Feb 25, 2013: "It is not just that we have made history by claiming an unprecedented third successive World Cup, it's the way we did it that I have found most satisfying," writes Ricky Ponting in The Australian

Australian cricket

Prime minister's tour offer not a solution

Feb 25, 2013: Prime Minister John Howard's offer to pay the $2 million fine Cricket Australia (CA) would incur should it refuse to tour Zimbabwe in September may only further complicate an already difficult and delicate situation, writes Malcolm Conn in The

Fiji

Lautoka claims gold medal

Feb 25, 2013: Lautoka beat Suva at Albert Park in Fiji yesterday, taking the gold medal in the Fiji Games competition

Bermuda

Bermuda's pitches

Feb 25, 2013: We've long known of the poor state of Bermuda's pitches , and the situation doesn't appear to be improving

Worcestershire

Smokers banished from New Road

Feb 25, 2013: Smoking has been banned from all public areas of Worcestershire's county ground, New Road, in readiness for the nationwide ban in England this July

Yorkshire

Bird comes home to roost

Feb 25, 2013: Hold the back page

World Cup 2007

Australia (and the World Cup) damaged but not broken

Feb 25, 2013:

Ireland

Ireland plan World Cup film

Feb 25, 2013: The Irish Cricket Union and film maker Paul Davey have announced that the principal photography has been completed on a behind the scenes documentary following the Irish team at the World Cup.

Australian cricket

Gillespie thought contract news was a joke

Feb 25, 2013: Jason Gillespie, speaking in The Advertiser , is surprised the Australia selectors handed him a place in the 25-man contracted list for 2007-08.

West Indies cricket

Sarwan needs support, not targets

Feb 25, 2013: The West Indies Cricket Board has given Ramnaresh Sarwan, the new captain, performance targets for the upcoming tour of England; what he needs is their whole-hearted support, writes Donald Duff in the Guyana based Starbroek News .

ICC

Should Malcom Speed resign?

Feb 25, 2013: An interesting debate in The Guardian where Asif Iqbal and Gideon Haigh debate both sides of the case why Malcolm Speed should or should not resign following the World Cup debacle.

Australian cricket

Looking for a challenge within

Feb 25, 2013: Everywhere teams are obsessed and stimulated by their sporting enemy

World Cup 2007

Forget neutral umpires and pick the best

Feb 25, 2013: Darren Lehmann and Derek Pringle say the light troubles of the final could have been avoided if Simon Taufel, the world’s best umpire, was able to stand

Worcestershire

Price reprimanded

Feb 25, 2013: Ray Price, the Worcestershire left-arm spinner, has received a reprimand under the ECB

English cricket

Brown shows England's failings

Feb 25, 2013: Anything Adam Gilchrist can do Alistair Brown can do better

World Cup 2007

The tough life of David Gower

Feb 25, 2013: Never mind the players or the organisers (or even the fans)