Who needs first-class cricket?

May 26, 2009: Why the success of the IPL may mean that domestic cricket could lose its value as a stepping stone to the Test platform

Gayle spake as he saw

May 19, 2009: Why the West Indies captain's pronouncements reflect the actions of cricket's administrators

Nannes for president

May 6, 2009: Modern cricket needs more players whose life is not just the game

Night of the screamers

Apr 27, 2009: Why the commentators' desperate hawking of the IPL may have started to work against the tournament

An opportunity missed

Mar 26, 2009: The IPL could have used the move to South Africa to globalise itself, but it has come across as an imperialist enterprise instead

Vive le new boys

Mar 11, 2009: The likes of Phil Hughes and Marcus North have made a case for blooding fresh talent

The meltdown that was in the stars

Feb 18, 2009: The likes of the ECB should have seen the latest Stanford developments coming

Cricket at the crunch

Feb 17, 2009: Recent events have shown that the game is not immune to the global economic meltdown

A century of dysfunction

Jan 23, 2009: Approaching its centenary, the ICC finds itself in a state of perhaps terminal decline

A thorny passage

Dec 1, 2008: The Mumbai attacks mark what may be the beginning of a difficult period for the game in India

In defence of Punter

Nov 11, 2008: Ponting may deserve criticism for his moves on day four at Nagpur, but he deserves a measure of sympathy as well

Punter's frontier

Sep 29, 2008: For Ponting the India tour is more than a matter of setting his dismal record in the country straight

The security excuse

Aug 26, 2008: If players' pay has ceased to be an issue to agitate about, conditions have not. At any rate, in the wake of 9/11, security is the new God before whom all must bow, and cricket is no exception

The Indianisation of cricket

Jul 22, 2008: The concentration of power in the hands of the BCCI is not necessarily bad, but India should understand that it is one thing to have earned the right to wield unipolar power, another to demonstrate deserving it

Whose right of way is it anyway?

Jul 2, 2008: Periodic fits of morality do cricket good, and the uproar over the Grant Elliott run-out might well do so, but perhaps not for the reasons that first come to mind

Of referrals and romanticism

May 23, 2008: As far as innovation goes, there is in accelerated phases of evolution as much danger as in obstinate rejection of all change

Good move, bad move

May 16, 2008: The MCC's proposal to limit the power of cricket bats has merit; the ICC's decision to trial the umpiring referral system doesn't

Brutish and short

Apr 22, 2008: Twenty20 is seen as a concentrated form of the game, but on the evidence so far, it's more like a crude edit

Gavaskar's double role

Jan 15, 2008: Sunil Gavaskar is bomb-thrower and bomb-defuser put into one, who somehow manages to operate as the chairman of the ICC's cricket committee while also acting as peppery columnist and media provocateur

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