England's selectors need to think more clearly

Cricket shouldn't just be trying to ban racism, it should ban sledging

Some suggestions for the keepers of Lord's

Lee, Steyn, Shoaib - the quick guns are in business again. The gods have acted

Of all the jobs in a cricket team, the captain's is the one to which a few wrinkles are most conducive

Why the ECB's new chairman, Giles Clarke, is wrong

International cricket in 2007 is a bell curve, with a great big bulge in the middle. Inzamam-ul-Haq may have gone, but his silhouette lives on

Don't kill ODIs, but let's have a balance

Batsmen are under pressure to score fast in twenty20

Shane Warne's list of the top 50 cricketers of his time is everything a list ought to be: provocative, surprising, talked-about, and, in places, plain wrong

India's big four are considered batting stars yet the bowlers who have been successful against them are the decade's half-forgotten names

Where tennis scores over cricket

England's unconvincing clear-out in one-day cricket

Cricket has some handsome, concrete ways of making sure this happens, naming parts of grounds after its greatest exponents

Why the MCC's new committee matters

Tim de Lisle believes that England's targets for the series against West Indies will include hoping for an aggressive start, gettting hold of a productive middle, aiming for an accurate attack and ensuring 100% unity

Tim de Lisle looks back the World Cup and concludes that as an event, it committed the crime that sports administrators are apt to accuse players of: it brought the game into disrepute

Andy Flower and Henry Olonga launched an unprecedented attack on the running of their country as Zimbabwe got their World Cup campaign underway against Namibia at Harare

Ed Smith has a brilliant academic career behind him and a sideline as a writer. It is a background that has made him venerated and occasionally vilified. Tim de Lisle hears the new Middlesex captain set the record straight