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Pre-season training: It's just not cricket
Thursday 24 November 2011
Angus Fraser recalls it being all about Mike Gatting failing the bleep test and Phil Tufnell smoking a fag as he hid behind a hedge. Now his Middlesex charges report back in November and are put through their paces by a cage fighter
Lorgat announces 2012 ICC exit
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Haroon Lorgat announced today he will stand down as International Cricket Council chief executive when his term of office expires in June 2012.
Arlott opened door and then people's minds
Sunday 20 November 2011
South African was resigned to life as a printer in Cape Town until he wrote to great commentator
How Roebuck brilliantly summed up Ashes debacle for Australia
Monday 14 November 2011
Peter Roebuck graced the cricket pages of 'The Independent' for several years. Here, we reproduce the final piece he wrote for us
Australians fall apart on amazing day
Friday 11 November 2011
Tourists make 47, their fourth-worst Test score, as 23 wickets are taken in South Africa match
Tendulkar is the first to 15,000 Test runs
Wednesday 09 November 2011
West Indies 304 & 180 India 209 & 152-2
Salman Butt 'was the inspiration' for Lord's spot-fixing
Thursday 03 November 2011
Agent claims former Pakistan captain and unnamed other player first approached him.
Rajan's Wrong 'Un: Ajmal's empty threats about aswelcome as cunning English plan
Monday 12 September 2011
There has been much talk in cricket circles over the past few weeks of mystery deliveries. It started in August, when Pakistani off-spinner Saeed Ajmal said that he would unveil a "top-secret" delivery against England in the series early next year.
Sachin Tendulkar ruled out of one-day series
Monday 05 September 2011
India batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out of the remainder of the one-day international series against England due to a toe injury, India's team manager Shivlal Yadav confirmed today.
India's sense of grievance grows as DRS decisions add to injuries
Monday 05 September 2011
England flew from one end of the country to the other yesterday in the hope of starting their one-day series. Forecasts suggest they may be no luckier at the Rose Bowl in Hampshire tomorrow than they were at the Emirates ICG in Durham on Saturday.
England's reign is prolonged by rain
Sunday 04 September 2011
Patel's innings counts for little as depleted world champions are denied from a position of strength after an encouraging display with the bat
Inside Lines: Big brother Vitali puts his title at risk in political punch-up
Sunday 04 September 2011
Who says sport and politics don't mix? Carl Lewis is the latest sports star to join the political fray following Imran Khan who aims to become president of Pakistan and world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao who has similar ambitions in the Philippines, where he is a congressman.
India denied chance to claim win over England
Saturday 03 September 2011
India 274-7 (50 overs) v England 27-2 (7.2 overs) - no result
Dominic Lawson: Is there anyone who can give us a decent game of cricket?
Tuesday 23 August 2011
In the month that the streets of our biggest cities have been disgraced and disfigured, this assertion of sporting supremacy acts as a tonic
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
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Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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