Life as a Pakistani cricketer is, to put it mildly, a challenge. And that's before Ijaz Butt starts phoning their mothers.

Who’d be a Pakistani cricketer?

It is less than 12 months since England's humiliating defeat to Holland in the 2009 World Twenty20. Since then they have learnt from their mistakes and constructed a new side to be worthy champions of the 2010 tournament.

England’s Twenty20 Flowering

Several of the Test Match grounds have been plotting a rebel UK Twenty20 league with Lalit Modi. English cricket is on the brink of civil war.

Civil war in English cricket

Giles Clarke always seems to have the expression of a man who has just reversed his car over the family dog. Now that some of the county ranks are threatening mutiny, he's threatening to get very cross indeed.

Captain Bligh of the ECB

I had planned a glorious essay on the failings of the Duckworth/Lewis Method in Twenty20. But then I got bored, so you'll have to make do with the following sardonic morsel.

The Duckworth/Colly method

A pair of recent articles in Spin Cricket magazine have got me in a huff about attempts to rank every player in Test cricket history. How dare they suck the life out of the narrative of cricket.

Oi, statto, NO!

It's only 10 months since the last edition, but I am strangely exited about this tournament in a way that it's impossible to be about the IPL right now. The format is lean and snappy, the cricket will be competitive and it's genuinely hard to call this one, although I am going to have a go.

World Twenty20 preview

I'll be tracking the progress of Chris Adams' Real Surrey Projekt this summer. Here's some thoughts on a slow start to the season.

Real Surrey Projekt: a slow start

The BCCI has commenced at full throttle it's campaign to convince the world, and especially the Indian tax authorities, that it wasn't even in the room when Lalit was being naughty, and that it definitely was nothing to do with them.

BCCI: “I was dead at the time”

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