Australian cricket

Jaques has a ball … in the park

Feb 25, 2013: Phil Jaques is the country’s most exciting batting prospect since Michael Clarke, but while Australia trained at the SCG he was playing club cricket .

India-Pakistan

On S Sreesanth and Suresh Raina

Feb 25, 2013: A striking feature of India's cricket this season is the difference between the look of the team in one-day cricket and that in Tests

Guernsey

Guernsey's finest join Europe's best

Feb 25, 2013: In April, Jamie Nussbaumer, James Mullen and Johnny Clark are off to Spain and the La Manga sport resort to undergo intensive week-long training programmes

New Zealand cricket

NZ cricketers' haunted house proving dangerous

Feb 25, 2013: A bunch of New Zealand cricketers have been spending time at an alleged "haunted house," and each has come down, rather spookily, with injuries :

Downtime

Feb 25, 2013: We had an unfortunate period of downtime which lasted 48 hours and affected all our blogs

2007 World Cup

Selectors missing the point.

Feb 25, 2013: Given Australia’s increasingly patchy form in one-day internationals, there has been much navel gazing about the composition of the side moving forward towards the 2007 World Cup

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

The only way to travel

Feb 25, 2013: You’ll have read the occasional passing reference to tuk-tuks in this diary already, but the three-wheeled vehicles have become such a part of my everyday life around Colombo that I felt they deserved an entry of their own

Crowd behaviour

Offensive naïvety

Feb 25, 2013: Introduction | Peter English | Rahul Bhattacharya

India-Pakistan

An Argumentum Ad Hominem

Feb 25, 2013: To me, it appears that the Indian team was desperate to win the game by hook or by crook, no matter even it came at the expense of the norms of this sport known as the gentleman's game.

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Ruins in fantasy land

Feb 25, 2013: Taxilla

The Players

Irfan, Kevin and Clarke: The Rising Stars

Feb 25, 2013: A toddler wobbles his way into the large room with big, soft settees

West Indies cricket

On the verge of quitting

Feb 25, 2013: In 2002 former West Indies allrounder Rawl Lewis was seriously thinking about packing in cricket

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Lego-land

Feb 25, 2013: Driving from Peshawar to Rawalpindi to Islamabad is like going from a rustic barber's shop to a run-of-the-mill hair-dresser to a posh hair-styling saloon

Australian cricket

'Tuff' love and Ashes gags

Feb 25, 2013: Richard Hinds, the Sydney Morning Herald columnist, analyses the Australian sense-of-humour failure caused by Phil Tufnell’s Ashes digs.

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Anyone seen the score?

Feb 25, 2013: After two matches at the SSC, Colombo’s second biggest ground following the Premadasa Stadium, it was time to take a look at another of the town’s multitude if venues

Crowd behaviour

Hit racism for six

Feb 25, 2013: Introduction | Peter English

What Statsguru can tell us about the first final between Australia and Sri Lanka

Feb 25, 2013: Thanks to today’s result , we now know that Sri Lanka will play Australia in the finals of the VB series

Australian cricket

Warne misses last chance for Allan Border Medal

Feb 25, 2013: Robert Craddock writes in The Courier-Mail it’s a shame Shane Warne will never collect the Allan Border Medal

George Binoy at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup

Nepal aim to climb their Everest

Feb 25, 2013: In many ways, the World Cup is bigger news in the lesser-known cricketing nations

Ireland

Ireland to play in UAE tournament

Feb 25, 2013: As reported by the BBC :