Kamikaze England plummet to defeat

Feb 25, 2013: Few teams do kamikaze as well as England when the mood is upon them

Clearing the ropes from an armchair

Feb 25, 2013: "Hell

England go in search of one-day inspiration

Feb 25, 2013: Angus Fraser in the Independent believes that one of the biggest influences on the England one-day side is the nation's attitude towards limited-over cricket .

The age of batting

What makes cricket special

Feb 25, 2013: Earlier posts: Intro , 1 .

Best Australian bat since Bradman?

Feb 25, 2013: Could Ricky Ponting be the best Australian batsman since Sir Donald Bradman

Someone please teach Andre how to sledge

Feb 25, 2013: Whether you love it or loathe it, sledging is a part of the game

They walked the line for Freddie

Feb 25, 2013: As the key player he was fantastic, but as the figurehead Flintoff was awesome , writes Stephen Brenkley in The Independent

Indian cricket

Sreesanth, the compulsive dreamer

Feb 25, 2013: When he's not in the field, Sreesanth pens poems - just one among his various talents

Ponting's puzzling change of plan

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck is bit puzzled with Ricky Ponting's captaincy , especially how he used Brett Lee and Stuart Clark.

New Zealand cricket

Mark Richardson: Whoever opens, don't be like me

Feb 25, 2013: Mark Richardson, former dour New Zealand opener, says the present lot of openers - Jamie How, Hamish Marshall, Michael Papps, Lou Vincent and Matthew Sinclair, have the potential to dominate good attacks from ball one

The age of batting

Of pitches and balls

Feb 25, 2013: Earlier post: Introduction .

The age of batting

Spectacle and contest

Feb 25, 2013: Imagine a modern-day Rip Van Winkle who goes to sleep sometime in the 1980s and wakes up on March 12, 2006

Cricket's true spiritual home

Feb 25, 2013: Cricket is only accidentally British

English cricket

Sachin's lost his instinctiveness

Feb 25, 2013: Scyld Berry chairs a fascinating discussion between Duncan Fletcher, Mike Atherton and Andrew Strauss

Indian cricket

Ganguly-Chappell clash now a case study for students!

Feb 25, 2013: The epic Sourav Ganguly-Greg Chappell spat has now found its way into the classrooms of a management institute in Mumbai

English cricket

Freddie makes Waugh book look out of date

Feb 25, 2013: England's bullish triumph at Mumbai - under an inspiring Andrew Flintoff - has whetted the appetite well before the national side travels to Australia later this year

Sri Lankan cricket

A tale of two friends

Feb 25, 2013: There's a raging debate going on in Sri Lanka, one about who should captain

Sri Lankan cricket

From grief to joy

Feb 25, 2013: For Upul Tharanga, the Sri Lankan left-hand opening batsman, the last 13 months have been very hard work, not only has he had to concentrate on building up his cricket career but also help his family get back on their feet and get over the

English cricket

Remembering Ben Hollioake

Feb 25, 2013: Thursday marked four years since the death of Ben Hollioake, when his car crashed in Perth

Sajid Mahmood - tall, loose-limbed and hostile

Feb 25, 2013: Sajid Mahmood is a fast bowler in the Stephen Harmison, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh mould