Shower the captain with praise?

Feb 25, 2013: Matthew Hoggard, in his tour diary in The Times cracks up at the sight of Andrew Flintoff and Michael Vaughan singing together in an advertisement

Hare Freddie, hare hare

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Flintoff is in preparation for the longest and hardest test of his career, when the Mumbai showdown gets underway tomorrow morning

The maid & the toothbrush

Feb 25, 2013: Dean Jones recounts a hilarious anecdote about his epic knock in the famous tied Test at Madras

A manic taxi ride and other stories

Feb 25, 2013: Alastair Cook, in his tour diary in The Telegraph , writes about a manic taxi ride in Mumbai, a humbling visit to an orphanage and his hope to end the tour on a winning note

Gavaskar's last hurray

Feb 25, 2013: This day , 19 years ago, Sunil Gavaskar, in what turned out to be his last Test, produced a master class against Pakistan on a crumbler

Indian cricket

Majority from minority

Feb 25, 2013: The small town revolution is here to stay in Indian cricket.Makarand Waingankar in The Sportstar explains the sudden transition.

England

Kicking a dog when he’s down

Feb 25, 2013: It seems a fashionable moment in time to be having a crack at England

'It's a 450 wicket, guys ... they're about 15 short!'

Feb 25, 2013: Neil Manthorp revisits the big game

Ireland

Irish cricket cashes in on England tie

Feb 25, 2013: The rush to grab tickets for England's encounter against Ireland has started, with £100,000 raised from ticket sales - even before they've gone on sale

Television

Big hits and big money make for dark future

Feb 25, 2013: Watching cricket on Indian television, with the incessant stream of adverts, tries one’s patience, says Simon Barnes in The Times

English cricket

Irish ticket rush begins

Feb 25, 2013: The rush to grab tickets for England's encounter against Ireland has started, with £100,000 raised from ticket sales - even before they've gone on sale

Oman

Oman Cricket Club Academy opens its doors

Feb 25, 2013: The Oman Cricket Club Academy launches today:

England in India, 2005-06

Happy Holi

Feb 25, 2013: So goodbye India

Patience brings rewards for Flintoff

Feb 25, 2013: Despite losing the second Test against India, Mike Selvey comments that Andrew Flintoff is the one England batsman whose technique has withstood India's spinners:

A man who refuses to give in

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck pays tribute to the latest entrant to the 500 club - Anil Kumble

Australian cricket

Smith and Warne told to end gutter battle

Feb 25, 2013: Greg Baum asks in The Age where is the management in the gutter battle between Graeme Smith and the Australians

When Boycott posed as WG Grace

Feb 25, 2013: Frank Keating in The Guardian looks back at the 1981-82 England tour when Boycott moaned; Willis read the complete works of Wodehouse and Gower and Botham were on perpetual lookout for "something drinkable"

Where does cricket go from here?

Feb 25, 2013: Tom Eaton wonders , post the greatest match of 'em all, in the Mail and Guardian

Commentary

Six reasons not to become an opener

Feb 25, 2013: This day, 25 years ago, Geoff Boycott was at the receiving end of perhaps the greatest over ever bowled

Jones injured, England bleed

Feb 25, 2013: The man whom England missed more than any other was Simon Jones , writes Christopher Martin-Jenkins.