Middle East cricket round-up
It’ll be action stations shortly at the grand old CBFS Stadium in Sharjah for the Ramadan Tournament which traditionally produces some of the finest domestic cricket of the year.

The gloves are off
In an era where the Australian cricket team’s sportsmanship has been questioned and scrutinised, Adam Gilchrist proved the exception.

Akram backs Lawson in
Hall-of-famer Wasim Akram has thrown his weight behind his country’s coach, former Australian Test player Geoff Lawson, who was a controversial appointment over summer to one of cricket’s most

Darjeeling calls stumps
Stumps have been called at Darjeeling, not by the casual flicking of the bails by a man in a white coat, but by those with spreadsheets and calculators.

Test stars to score huge bucks
The establishment is fighting back. Maybe lessons have been learned from the raid on the game’s elite cricketers by tycoon Kerry Packer.

Gulf goes wild over twenty20 triumph
Cricket-crazy Indians erupted all over the Gulf as Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s young team snatched the inaugural Twenty20 world title.

Pom has-beans
That was before my time but I watched Ray Illingworth lead his England side off at the SCG during the 1970-71 series after the magnificent fast bowler John Snow was manhandled by a spectator