Why we need a truly global Champions League

Nov 22, 2009: Spreading the reach of cricket can best be achieved by expanding the Champions League, cutting Tests down to three days each, and using the franchise model effectively

Cricket's tangle of formats

Nov 17, 2009: Far from being complementary, Tests, ODIs and Twenty20s are competitors; in many instances they cannibalise each other

India's proudest possession

Nov 14, 2009: Tendulkar has gone two decades being a blend of the sublime and the precise, incapable of ugliness or of being dull; and those are among the least of his achievements

The threat to cricket's centre

Nov 6, 2009: It's not a battle between 50- and 20-over cricket, it's about who's playing. And that should worry the ICC

Why Ireland should be a Test nation

Nov 5, 2009: Cricket needs to move beyond its cosy cartel of countries, bring in more teams, and have two or more divisions

David Shepherd

The epitome of the English sportsman

Oct 28, 2009: Shep was a cricketer before he was an umpire, and in both roles he loved the game immensely

Give the players a better deal

Sep 27, 2009: Why the world's cricket boards and the ICC are increasingly going to have to let players freelance

And so it begins, again

Sep 26, 2009: After a period of overkill in the middle of this decade, cricket's most fraught rivalry has an edge again. Or does it?

Down with formula

Sep 13, 2009: To be meaningful, ODIs need to stop being predictable - by cutting down on the regulations, and encouraging a close contest between bat and ball

Beware the referral system

Aug 30, 2009: Cricket's reliance on off-field help in the decision-making process is part of the problem. The game needs better umpires, not more technology

Andy Atkinson

'The ICC isn't trying to standardise pitches'

Aug 3, 2009: Are playing surfaces becoming uniformly bland worldwide due to commercial considerations? Is the art of Test match pitch preparation dead? The ICC's pitches manager reflects on these and other questions

The price to pay

Aug 2, 2009: Players' concerns about privacy in the light of the new drug-testing regime may be justified, but it is for the good of the credibility of the game

Why Test cricket must get more elitist

Jul 31, 2009: The game is going through perhaps the most volatile phase in its history, but the Future Tours Programme has the potential to make a difference

Saviour or predator?

Jul 19, 2009: In these trying times, Test cricket needs a stronger and more unified governing body - which the ICC in its current form isn't

Mix it up right

Jul 5, 2009: This summer, with its blend of Twenty20 and a top-flight Test series, may offer a blueprint for cricket's programme in the years ahead

Four-day Tests

'You've got to sex up Test cricket'

Jul 4, 2009: David Morgan recently said the ICC would consider the prospect of four-day Test matches, which set people talking

Tradition v survival

Jun 25, 2009: Don't double up in horror: day-night Tests, coloured clothing and the white ball could be the saviours of the first-class game

The short format's big role

Jun 17, 2009: The purists may sneer at it, but Twenty20's most vital role will be in making cricket popular in places where it isn't

Its own worst enemy

Jun 15, 2009: A hundred years into its existence, the ICC finds itself presiding over the means of its obsolescence

England v Netherlands, ICC World Twenty20, Lord's

Dutch courage spares organisers' blushes

Jun 5, 2009: Nagraj Gollapudi watches Netherlands' shock win paper over what was a damp squib of an opening day in the ICC World Twenty20