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Time to deregulate ODI cricket

Bangladesh celebrate as England take the Powerplay.
England - keeping the World Cup alive.

England, the unlikely World Cup saviours

England may not care as much for the World Cup as others, but they are single-handedly saving the tournament from itself.

O'Brien - blitzed England in Bangalore.

Brains to go with brawn on the KOB

Kevin O'Brien showed brains to go with power in a matchwinning innings that changed more than one game of cricket.

Ireland - marginalised in 2011, banished in 2015.

The World Cup is half empty

Has it really been four years? Time again for the Cricket World Cup: the least important global ODI event, apart from all the others.

The Ashes 2010/11 - one of England's finest victories.

Cook, Jimmy and the History Boys

With the one-day irrelevance out of the way, time to look back properly on one of England's finest ever Ashes victories.

Prior - right keeper, wrong opener.

Prior right for keeping, not for opening

England have picked the right World Cup keeper. But why do they insist on the gloveman opening the batting in ODIs?

Musing The WeekA rather deep Kevin Pietersen hedges his bets, Michael Vaughan conveniently forgets the wretched run he once endured and Lalit Modi's phrase-a-day calendar pays off...

Good Week, Bad WeekThe Black Caps are on a roll, while poor form and injury have led Mitchell Johnson to change his priorities. It's our look back at the week that was...

"The 1990s feel like a disconnected reminiscence, and what's needed is for someone to tie the previous eras to the current one as a reminder of what Zimbabwe represent..."

albie says...

I told you I'll be back.pakistan and I are the greatest at what we do.we whitewashed the best team on foreign conditions.we took it easy on them and did not play wahab riaz or umar akmal. Pakistan are...

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soapboxThe ball looks like a pea and the bat feels like a stick of rhubarb for Ian Bell these days, but his awful form is by no means the worst ever...