Nepal

Nepali team photo

Feb 25, 2013: A photo of the Nepali team departing for the forthcoming Under-19 World Cup

Don't ignore history

Feb 25, 2013: Mike Atherton comments in the Sunday Telegraph that modern players are increasingly ignorant of the players that came before them

English cricket

The Big Interview: Andrew Flintoff

Feb 25, 2013: The Sunday Times have a "Big Interview" with Andrew Flintoff

Australian cricket

Will Warne be a good Neighbour?

Feb 25, 2013: Shane Warne’s life really will be a soap opera when he makes a guest performance on Neighbours .

India

A middle order nicety

Feb 25, 2013: They say sport is a great teacher

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Coming alive with Afridi

Feb 25, 2013: There's a certain aura that accompanies Shahid Afridi

Offbeat

Trading the bat for a shovel

Feb 25, 2013: Fancy your coach digging graves to make ends meet

Australian cricket

Martyn tempts fate, partner trusts his luck

Feb 25, 2013: Phil Jaques is a fine batsman and much more can be expected from him

If you lose to Pakistan, I will kill you: A fan to Contractor

Feb 25, 2013: Nari Contractor looks back at the 1960-61 series he played against Pakistan and talks about the pressure of playing against the arch-rivals.

Lifeless surfaces kill the contest

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck criticises the pitch at Lahore and hopes Faisalabad doesn't present a curate' egg

Zimbabwe cricket

The ignoble game

Feb 25, 2013: It's not just the cricket press ..

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

A poet and three heroes

Feb 25, 2013: He wrote ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha’, is credited with coming up with the idea of a separate state for Indian Muslims, and has a Test venue named in his honour

Offbeat

Jagger boxes clever for cricket

Feb 25, 2013: Ah, rock stars, they can be a demanding lot

Offbeat

Really feeling the benefit

Feb 25, 2013: Veteran warhorse Andrew Flintoff, 27, has been awarded a benefit this year, news which can't have come as much of a shock to the limelight-bathed allrounder, or indeed his adoring nation.

Ashes

Cooley carries his expertise to Oz

Feb 25, 2013: The turncoat turns for home

The white ball wonder

Feb 25, 2013: When the cricket equipment manufacturer Kookaburra, describes the composition of their cricket balls, you can almost taste the century of history the company has behind it

Australian cricket

Mr Cricket was almost Mr Squash

Feb 25, 2013: Michael Hussey could have been lost to squash as a junior

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Echoing and informal

Feb 25, 2013: From Lahore to Faisalabad in a Daewoo bus with a hostess making anouncements that are undecipherable, unless one has an echo filter

English cricket

Shaun Noodle

Feb 25, 2013: He didn't have a terrific tour of Pakistan, and by all accounts his new nickname - Shaun Noodle (geddit?) - won't be leaving him any time soon :

Women's cricket

Return to source

Feb 25, 2013: England's women international, Isa Guha, recently returned to her roots on the tour of India and Sri Lanka, and tells the Ealing Times about a hot, noisy, daunting but exhilarating experience.