Commentary

Targeting the umpires

Feb 25, 2013: IS over-appealing leading to the spate of very poor umpiring decisions in international matches over the last 12 months

It's costly filling Shoaib's boots

Feb 25, 2013: Shoaib Akhtar in a bid to maintain his fitness at the optimum level and avoid any foot injuries uses specially made boots, each pair costing 500 pounds (about 53,000 Pakistani rupees), and he carries five pairs in his kit bag.

The secret behind Sehwag's return to form

Feb 25, 2013: There’s a scientific explanation for Virender Sehwag's return to form

Australian cricket

Snakebite hat-trick

Feb 25, 2013: A 15-year-old cricketer from Australia was bitten by a brown snake last Thursday, and the following morning promptly took a hat-trick in his first A-grade game:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Life's a pitch

Feb 25, 2013: So here we were at Lahore, witnessing a Test played on, if we were to believe the cricketers, the flattest of surfaces

India

Opening for India

Feb 25, 2013: Jamie Alter's piece on India's sorry trend of making the most unlikely of batsmen open the innings kinda set me off today

When Roy and Mankad tormented the Kiwis

Feb 25, 2013: Clayton Murzello, sports editor of Mid-Day , the Mumbai-based daily , looks back at the world-record opening partnership of 413 between Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad in 1955-56 that Sehwag and Dravid came within an ace of breaking

Ban the Kookaburra

Feb 25, 2013: Waqar Younis is fuming

Cricket... caught on tape!

Feb 25, 2013: Sanjjeev Samyal of Mid Day , the Mumbai-based tabloid, had a practice session with a local club to understand the nuances of tape ball cricket , which is a rage in Pakistan.

Amitabh, Aishwarya jostle for space with cricketers

Feb 25, 2013: Bollywood v Cricket Pakistan’s love and craze for Bollywood and Indian tele-serials continued even as the Indian team is there on a 45-day tour to play three Tests and five one-day internationals

When Dravid charmed Bari

Feb 25, 2013: Wasim Bari, former Pakistan wicketkeeper and current chairman of selectors, appears to be floored by Rahul Dravid

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on India in Pakistan 2005-06

Leave or smack?

Feb 25, 2013: Watching a cricketer at a press conference has its own charm

The mystery of spin

Feb 25, 2013: The ECB’s goal of England becoming the world’s best team by 2007 will probably elude them because they don’t have a quality spinner, says Vic Marks

We're here for the food, not the cricket

Feb 25, 2013: The Newkerala reports that "most" of the Indians travelling to Pakistan on so-called "cricket visas" aren't there to watch the cricket at all

Scotland

Moles departure shrouded in mystery

Feb 25, 2013: The ramifications of the departure of Andy Moles as Scotland’s coach continue to rumble on, with a report in the Scotsman on Sunday claiming that he was sacked rather than resigned, as Cricket Scotland’s media department maintain.

Moles departure shrouded in mystery

Feb 25, 2013: The ramifications of the departure of Andy Moles as Scotland’s coach continue to rumble on, with a report in the Scotsman on Sunday claiming that he was sacked rather than resigned, as Cricket Scotland’s media department maintain.

Opening salvo

Feb 25, 2013: R Mohan , the veteran Indian journalist, has eulogised Rahul Dravid’s decision to open the batting, calling it an "unselfish" move

USA

India and Pakistan look towards the USA

Feb 25, 2013: A much-needed boost for US cricket with the news that the Indian and Pakistan boards are looking at playing matches at neutral venues

What colour do you see the world in?

Feb 25, 2013: PCB definitely doesn’t see it red

Mushtaq finally gets bowling coach appointment

Feb 25, 2013: The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed Mushtaq Ahmed, the legspinner, as the bowling coach of the senior team for the home series against India.