kohli has big shoes to fill as dhoni passes the baton

chetan narula looks at how virat kohli will adjust to life as india’s new limited-overs skipper.

greenway starts the search for new generation

lydia greenway will be remembered as one of england’s all-time greats and now the newly-appointed player coach at kent is hoping to discover her successor for county and country.

why it's time for the emerging nations to follow baseball's lead

tim wigmore’s weekly look at the game below the test-playing nations.

fine knock, but let's not forget mo's ball skills...

moeen ali’s fourth test hundred, his first at number five, confirms what many have known since his early days – that he is a batsman of exceptional gifts.

Mentally Scarred, If Only Mo Had Illy's Self-Belief

At last. It’s all over. No more getting up in the middle of the night, hoping you didn’t wake anyone up with a loud volley of expletives after turning on the radio, and trying to fight off the urge to kick the cat whilst harrumphing your way back up the stairs to bed.

Rashid Can Shine Like A T20 Murali

Tim Wigmore is tipping Afghan spin king Rashid Khan to be the next big thing in T20 after his rapid Big Bash rise

Rash Call Played In To Hostile Hands Of Philander

 Just as the Ashes petered out and the last glimmer of a contest disappeared at the SCG, Test cricket was revitalised by a contest of raw competition played at a pace and intensity that left viewers breathless, for hour after hour, and the players emotionally and physically spent.

Cameo By Root Had Hint Of WWE

Adam Collins and Vithushan Ehantharajah share a promising stand in Geoff Lemon’s absence

The Good Ol' Cricket Press Box Is Just Not The Same

When Arsene Wenger opted to serve a touchline ban in the press box recently, I found myself hoping Trevor Bayliss might consider following the Arsenal football manager’s lead – if only to spare us those close-up shots of him on the balcony.

Heat On Knees After Lesson From Abbott

SYDNEY Sixers put a huge dent in Brisbane Heat’s push for the playoffs, rolling them over for 73 – the third-lowest score in Big Bash cricket.

There's No Reason Why We Can't Win World Cup

ALL-ROUNDER Euan Woods feels England can become world beaters after enjoying an excellent start to their ICC Under-19 World Cup campaign in New Zealand.

So, How Do You Fit Five In To Four?

Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon take a light-hearted view on why the Australian one-day team just isn’t clicking at the moment

Be Your Own Man, Joe, If You Land the Captaincy

We don’t know if Joe Root is the right man to captain England – so says Paul Farbrace, England’s assistant coach, as if this was some kind of cosmic revelation rather than an utterance of the bleedin’ obvious.

Adams Backs Vince to earn England recall and then show his real ability

Richard Edwards discovers the new role as Hampshire captain could help an England discard to an international return.

Adam Collins

It's Better Late Than Never as ICC Move With Time.

Doosra Has Been Laid to Rest, and Not Before Time

Garfield Robinson looks at a number of byelaws and regulations which should be confined to the graveyard of cricket.

Paul Nixon

Batty’s Call-up Sending Out Right Message.

Simpson Is The Hero As Champs Clinch Thriller

“WE never do it easy, do we?” laughed John Simpson as he was again the hero in a remarkable win for champions Middlesex, who have now lost just two of their last 35 four-day games.

After Such A Damp Squib Of A Start Who Would've Expected Fireworks In The Late Lord's Summer Sun?

Joshua Peck looks at a season in which the drama built to that incredible climax of Middlesex's title clincher.

Spin-King Monty Deserved A Bit More Love Back Home

You’ve got to hand it to the Aussies. Recruiting Monty Panesar to mentor their spinners in advance of the Test tour to India may have seemed at first like a long, loud raspberry to successive England managements who have, for various reasons, decided their most effective left-arm spinner for years was not only un-selectable but borderline unmentionable. Mind games, surely.

Aussies Are Playing Their Trump Card In Ashes Year!

Adam Collins finds political and personal subtexts in Australia’s incredible destruction of India in the first Test in Pune.

Irony Of Candice Trying To Land An Early Ko

At a time when you wonder which will come first – the police making up their minds whether or not to prosecute Ben Stokes or Christmas –there are some things in life which take a mere nanosecond by comparison with Plod finally sorting out his paperwork.

How Cricket Helps Ease Rwanda's Pain

Charles Reynolds in Kigali discovers how ethnic and gender divides are being tackled at Rwanda’s spectacular new cricket ground

Sorry Ben, Bairstow Can Be Our No.3 And Still Keep

In three weeks’ time, the build-up would have ended and the Ashes will be well underway. Between now and then though, England have three warm-up matches to narrow their squad down and pick an XI ready to do battle in Brisbane.

A Scrap Between Ashes Also-Rans

Tim Wigmore questions the validity of the hyper-coverage given to two teams who are well off the world No.1 spot

Three Bolters Who Could Step Out Of The Shadows

England coach Trevor Bayliss may have been the one finally to end all speculation over Ben Stokes’ involvement in the upcoming Ashes, but it was Joe Root’s tacit if almost unnoticed acceptance they would have to do without him some days earlier that provoked more food for thought.

Haddin: Get Ready For Another Onslaught

BRAD Haddin was a consistent thorn in England’s side throughout the 2013/14 Ashes – and now he’s hoping that the current Australia side can blossom under the leadership of Steve Smith.

Ashes Build-Up Is Just Pure Theatre

Chris Stocks discovers that Justin Langer doesn’t share the same prediction philosophy as his mate Glenn McGrath

Stone The Crows! Now It's My Time To Make My Ashes Mark

JUST seven years after watching Alastair Cook win the Ashes in Australia, Mark Stoneman will be opening the batting alongside him in tomorrow’s first tour match against a Western Australia XI at the WACA.

Different Eras, But Victory Remains So Sweet

Comparisons between eras are often futile but I’m going to do it anyway, highlighting the differences and, where they occur, the similarities between England’s Ashes tour of 1982/3, which I experienced under Bob Willis, and the one Joe Root’s team are undertaking some 35 years later.