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With the switch hit becoming a popular method to score in the shorter format of the game, the ICC is pondering a review in the playing conditions regarding lbw decisions in response to the emergence of the switch hit. Harsha Bhogle, writing in the Indian Express, says that for the switch hit to be legitimised the bowlers must have equal opportunity. I am overjoyed that the ICC is going to review the switch hit. As it stands, it is unfair and strikes at the sanctity of our sport which must…

As players become richer and more powerful, and their options proliferate, Richard Lord, writing in the Wall Street Journal, says the art of managing players is changing and exerting top-down control is in many cases simply no longer possible. This yet again underlines the need for professional, dispassionate, level-headed administrators at all levels of the game. The old-style autocrats who controlled the game for so long simply don’t cut it anymore. The need for the kind of root and branch reorganization of the game’s administration recommended by the recent Woolf…

Only 14 overs were possible on the third day of West Indies’ tour game at Hove before the decision was made to abandon it once and for all

Sachin Tendulkar has displayed outstanding consistency across his long career

Islamabad, May 6 (ANI): Former Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood has said cricket has no boundaries and the game can play a part in reviving the ties between India and Pakistan.

Mahmood said that the game has brought the two nations closer in the past and it can play the same role again.

Kenya have appointed former Zimbabwe cricket coach Robin Brown as head of its national elite programme to oversee the development of the game from the grassroots to the top level.

Former Australian batsman Justin Langer, writing for cricketcountry.com, says if cricket is a religion in India, it is theatre and night club in the Caribbean. In the West Indies, cricket is a combination of theatre and a night club. The passion for the game is intense, but regardless of the result, the West Indian people seem to have so much fun. From the moment we arrived at the ground each day, to the moment the last drinks are called in the hotel, there is music, loud, loud music. People dance…

The success of the IPL in India has distorted the cricket landscape, writes Greg Chappell in The Hindu. Cricket has gone through massive changes in recent years and continues to do so. Whether the game will survive is not the question; now, it is can the three formats survive? IPL is no longer a domestic competition. The ICC must recognise this and clear the international calendar for the IPL to preserve the integrity of Test cricket, or risk weakening it immeasurably. Test cricket has to be respected by the custodians…

Harbhajan Singh, the Mumbai Indians captain, has criticised the Wankhede Stadium pitch for the game against Deccan Chargers on Sunday, saying it was not ideal for Twenty20 cricket