Bagai on board

Aug 14, 2009: Canada's best player has swapped life as a banker for a cricket contract

ICC World Cup Qualifiers 2009

Ireland take trophy, Afghans the headlines

Apr 20, 2009: It took 12 teams 54 matches spread over 19 days to determine the best of the rest, the countries next in the queue for an ICC handout and those fortunate four who will play in the 2011 World Cup

ICC World Cup Qualifiers 2009

Done on the development trail

Apr 2, 2009: Cricket has had a long and loyal following, born not only out of the village greens of England or the dusty Indian maidans, but the war-torn wastelands of Afghanistan and a spare scrap of land in Canada

Stormy up north

Feb 16, 2009: The recent upheavals in Canada's cricket administration have dented its image

The Associates

Two up, four down

Jan 4, 2009: Ireland and Scotland fared well, while Bermuda, Kenya, Canada and Netherlands plumbed the depths

Rizwan Cheema

Big fish, small pond

Nov 5, 2008: He may play for Canada but he's drawing favourable comparisons with the big boys of international cricket thanks to his ability to clear the boundary at will

Life beyond Davison

Sep 19, 2008: Five years after Canada made their biggest strides in world cricket they've realised it's homegrown players and expertise that will take them to the next level

ICC World Twenty20 Qualifiers

Davison returns to Canada for Twenty20 challenge

Aug 1, 2008: John Davison is focused on making a smooth introduction to cricket's hottest craze to inspire Canada to next year's World Twenty20 in England

Associates lose out

Only one winner in county v country debate

Jul 16, 2008: Martin Williamson looks at how the Associate countries will always lose out in the tug-of-war with counties

Help the aged

Jul 3, 2008: Eleven players who made ODI appearances after their 40th birthday

The future's bright

Jun 27, 2008: The new ICC funding regulations should have a positive impact on the game's Associates and Affiliates

2007 in review: The Associates

Cash and commitment cause for concern

Jan 3, 2008: Life beyond the Test world: our review of the Associate nations in 2007

ICC must go on funding cricket's expansion

Nov 14, 2007: The budget allocated by the ICC to Associates must not be cut to give more to the big boys

1844

The oldest international contest of them all

Nov 10, 2007: And no, it isn't England v Australia

When the Don met the Babe

Sep 15, 2007: Donald Bradman's visit to USA and Canada in 1932

Encyclopaedia of World Cricket

Life beyond the Test world

Jul 20, 2007: A worthy, reasonably priced reference on world cricket

Amateurs cannot be blamed for professional dreams

Associates on a rocky path to nowhere

Jun 29, 2007: 'Success at all costs' is the modern cricketer's mantra and, with Associate cricketers fleeing the skimpily paid amateur lifestyle for a professional world in England, and elsewhere, there is a real danger that the ICC's development work needs a major ret

A game of haves and have not

An amateur solution in a professional world

Apr 13, 2007: Martin Williamson looks at the problems facing those who play for the Associates as the demands on their time increase while the rewards do not

World Cup 2007

Less is more

Mar 27, 2007: Martin Williamson argues that the ICC needs to rethink the way it handles the Associates at future World Cups

ICC's minnows experiment needs as much depth as it has breadth

Big picture, blurred vision

Mar 17, 2007: More important than the symbolism of minor teams at the World Cup is the question of what's being done for them in between tournaments