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ECB must find a way to play the IPL yorker

Panic over the Indian Twenty20 competitions has soon set in around the world and nowhere more quickly than in England.Read

Cricket... it's a money old game

As usual, the English cricket authorities are caught in the middle of another sub-continental bout of in-fighting, while the lawyers are hoveringRead

Neither of two appalling teams worthy of series victory

Irrespective of the result in the decisive Test match in Napier, Michael Vaughan and his wildly erratic party have major questions to answer when they return to this country this week.Read

Questions still hang over England side

England have squared the three-match series in Wellington and so approach the final Test on Good Friday in Napier with the fate of the tour dependent upon the outcome.Read

Over-analysis squeezing creativity out of the team

England's dire performance in the first Test in Hamilton confirmed that Michael Vaughan and his cosily centrally-contracted cricketers have lost the ability to think for themselves.Read

ECB facing Indian tidal wave

If Kerry Packer's World Series revolution 31 years ago was a ripple in international waters, Lalit Modi's Indian Premier League is an unstoppable tidal wave.Read

England left with question of captain and coach

England's one-day series defeat to New Zealand raises massive question marks about Paul Collingwood, the captain, and Peter Moores, the coach.Read

Bouncing back by learning lessons of defeats

Successful sporting teams learn more about themselves in defeat than victory — in New Zealand last week England brushed off humiliating thrashings in Wellington and Hamilton by bouncing back to normality in Auckland.Read

Bond and Maddy likely to pay same price as Amiss and Kallicharran

Worcestershire's overseas signing Shane Bond and Warwickshire captain Darren Maddy face being banned from international cricket.Read

Speed's hat-trick of cave-ins

The International Cricket Council completely flunked its biggest test with the craven handling of the Harbhajan Singh verbal spat with Andrew Symonds and other Australians in the Sydney Test in early January.Read

Aussie great Gilchrist quits for Indian gold

Rarely can a brutal batsman be said to grace the game but that is what Adam Gilchrist has done prior to riding off into an Indian sunset to pocket £400,000 for joining the India Premier League Twenty20 in April.Read

Selectors seduced by fool's gold

England have done it again, with their choice of wicket-keeper Tim Ambrose for the tour of New Zealand with uncapped Phil Mustard in support.Read