Durham are county champions! Not just that, but the manner in which they won is compelling : Durham's route to the title has been due to their excellent team spirit, with various people stepping forward to take responsibility and few stand-out performers. Only Michael di Venuto, and he only just...

Sri Lanka beat India easily. Will India come back again in the second game? Dileep Premachandran says Mendis is the culprit : Eight of the Indians reached double figures, but came no nearer to finding a solution to the Mendis conundrum that has ruined their tour of the teardrop-shaped isle. Mendis, who...

It's a convoluted piece of logic, to be sure. Apparently the BCCI has seen fit to tell Indian players not to play for any teams that have ICL players in them: "The BCCI has advised its players to stay away from counties that have ICL players," board secretary Niranjan Shah told Mumbai's...

Hold the press! The ECB has a new competition in the offing that will revolutionize the game...featuring all the counties and then some more playing Twenty20. Who would have thought that the county boards could have thought of something just so exciting and revolutionary. Or was that self-serving and...

Sri Lanka Cricket just solved a payrise problem---Ottayan says that their debts have been cleared by the upcoming India tour ---but are in all kinds of trouble over the newly scheduled tour next year to England. Looks like they're seriously considering letting their star players play in the IPL next...

Scorpicity argues that the IPL is really already over. The Royals won : Seriously they have! Because how meaningless in context are these so-called knockout rounds in the name of Semi-finals and finals are in the IPL! Why? Because a six league team just doesn't need a knock-out stage. A best of three...

Q writes his 4th quarter report with not much time left for the start of the first semi-final. Shaun Marsh and Sohail Tanvir stand out with the bat and ball respectively, and Q picks out Piyush Chawla's excellent bowling too: One man hasn't made his international debut yet, while the other is...

Mohan is a little disenchanted with the IPL , worrying about its length and ability to generate fan following, while Richard wants to rethink the league format of county cricket to make it more competitive. Continuing in the rethinking mode but this time on the relationship between the IPL and all the...

Brian Carpenter links to a wonderful article by Simon Hughes on Mark Ramprakash. I too remember Ramps making his start in county cricket and thinking that he would soon dominate world cricket: Even though I belong to the apparently small group of people who feel that it would have been a retrograde step...

What would Twenty20 look like in the future in England? Cities, regions, or just plain old counties as it is now? The last options seems entirely unworkable given the amount of money in the IPL and ICL. Is this, finally, the end of the counties' hold over English cricket? Q digs into the not-so-ancient...