In Case You Missed It: Disputes, sackings, farewells, and an apology

The Asia Cup threw up some unlikely winners and nail-biting finishes last week, with the losing teams doing some introspection and a fair bit of finger-pointing as well. Meanwhile the India and Pakistan boards are gearing up for a different kind of battle, while Australia and Pakistan take the fight to the field in the UAE, and a confident England face off against a nervy Sri Lanka. Cricket isn't letting up anytime soon.

Lessons from the Asia Cup
India took the Asia Cup away from Bangladesh in a last-ball thriller, but the tournament as a whole deviated from the quotidian ODI run fest. From superstar Mohammad Shahzad to Rohit Sharma's captaincy, Shashank Kishore looks at everything we learned from this edition. And though India and Bangladesh made the finals, everyone seemed to agree that Afghanistan were the biggest winners of the tourney.

Kumar Sangakkara urges Angelo Mathews and Chandika Hathurusingha to sort out their differences
Following Sri Lanka's early exit from the Asia Cup, the SLC unceremoniously removed Angelo Mathews as the limited-overs captain and dropped him from the squad entirely for the upcoming England ODIs citing fitness issues and a propensity to run his batting partners out. After Mathews' public back and forth with the selectors, former captain Kumar Sangakkara has urged coach Hathurusingha and Mathews to repair their rift as soon as possible. Watch: Sri Lanka's captaincy has seen quite a revolving door of players in recent times.

BCCI-PCB go head to head in legal battle
The dispute is over an agreement signed in April 2014 to play bilateral games - an agreement that has not been honoured and shows no signs of being so

Never got paid on time - Steve Rixon hits out at PCB
With Pakistan's poor fielding in the Asia Cup becoming a talking point, the team's former fielding coach has spoken out about his reasons for quitting, citing, primarily, the board's lack of professionalism. Meanwhile a sleepless Sarfraz Ahmed is feeling the heat after Asia Cup exit. An unrelenting workload over the last four years has now sparked discussion about the possibility of resting the Pakistan captain for parts of the upcoming home season.

Women at centre of Australian cricket's big plans for October
Daniel Brettig on how the WBBL is cricket's answer to plugging a hole left by the end of the AFL season, as well as engaging a half of the population that was neglected for too long

When women stormed the citadel
It's only been 20 years since the MCC reluctantly opened its membership to include women. Raf Nicholson charts that journey.

What We Remember: Brendon McCullum hitting 158 not out in the IPL opener
How do you kickstart a new era in cricket? By going ballistic, of course.

Photo feature: Bye, bye, bye
Following Alastair Cook's multiple-ovation farewell at the end of the India-England series, we look back at the many different flavours of goodbyes cricket has had.

Sorry, Clarkey
In the latest in our Hate to Love series, Adam Collins tips his hat to Michael Clarke, whom he perhaps was too quick to judge.

Did you know Virat Kohli is just the worst in ODIs?
This and other clickbait in Steven Lynch's weekly stats and trivia column