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James Marsh

N Srinivasan should step aside from ICC, say FICA

Marsh called on the ICC to take note of Supreme Court's orders and apply it for ICC activities.

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Andy Flower and the politics of resignation

Andy Flower resigned from his post as England coach on Friday.

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Faf du Plessis’s latest act and the pocket conundrum

This was a profound week for pockets' long and controversial role in cricket as Faf du Plessis's zip misdemeanor against Pakistan led to Match Referee, David Boon, creating the 'innovative’ new offence of accidental ball-tampering.

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India’s approved tour of South Africa puts CSA, BCCI and the game of cricket in bad light

Cricket South Africa (CSA) offering up a blood sacrifice of Haroon Lorgat to N Srinivasan in exchange for allowing India's tour of their nation to go ahead could prove catastrophic for cricket. But it reflects poorly on CSA, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and cricket as a whole that it's taken such a phoney war to achieve this uneasy truce.

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Sohag Gazi, Shan Masood put down markers for future

Barisal is known for its rice plantations and 17th century Portuguese pirates. It may soon be equally well known for being the home of Sohag Gazi, the young Bangladesh all-rounder with a taste for scrawling all over cricket's record books.

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Ashes 2013: Is Shane Watson’s bowling comparable to that of Jacques Kallis?

Shane Watson, despite his unexceptional batting in this series, has, at a push, all the attributes — particularly vis-á-vis the game's peculiar lack of admiration for him — to be the heir to Jacques Kallis's mantle as the world's leading fast-bowling all-rounder.

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Michael Clarke has been every inch the leader of men

Hushed suggestions of hypochondria have circled around Michael Clarke recently, but the general consensus is that his back has now officially caused him even more pain and stress than Lara Bingle.

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Cricket follows Darwinian concept of ‘Survival of the fittest’

The Colin Cowdrey Spirit of Cricket Lecture always garners headlines, but few speeches have been as acclaimed as Kumar Sangakkara's in 2011. Strolling as effortlessly as one of his cover drives through sport, politics, his upbringing and the 2009 terrorist attack on Sri Lanka's team bus in Pakistan, he delivered an emotive, touching talk on cricket's role within life and its powers for the wider good.

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Australia: Anatomy of a disaster

George Bailey has his critics, but on Monday he achieved the impossible by making poor Michael Clarke grimace at something other than his cursed vertebrae. It was a slovenly piece of running from the affable Australian stand-in captain ambling towards what he thought was the non-danger end —he clearly hadn't studied Sri Lanka's previous in this tournament — and up on the balcony the official skipper covered his face in his palm as his replacement was caught a long way short of his ground.

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Forget Rahul Dravid, N Srinivasan is India’s new wall!

N Srinivasan's performance at his press conference on Sunday teetered on the fault line between inspiration and delusion. There sat the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), plonked down like giant slab omnipotence, as he remained utterly unrepentant for and oblivious to what had happened in two of his fiefdoms, the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK).

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