Martin Crowe

Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has criticised the ICC's decision to allow a 15-degree straightening of the arm when bowling

Another batch of cricketers who have kept the medical profession in gainful employment

A stream of verbal abuse aimed by New Zealand cricket captain Stephen Fleming at former team-mate and now television commentator Mark Richardson has been dismissed as a hoax

Tony Cozier looks ahead to West Indies' first Twenty20 international

The regular Monday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket.

Martin Crowe believes Bangladesh's Test matches should be confined to playing only the side ranked immediately ahead of them on the ICC Test Championship

Martin Crowe, who invented the now-defunct CricketMax has suggested that Twenty20 needs new ideas to survive

Twenty-two of the world's greatest players gathered at Lord's to play in a one-off match to mark the MCC's bicentenary.

The World Cricket Classic, a Twenty20 cricket competition set to feature former leading international players, has been launched in London

Shane Warne's regrowth has always been a style issue

Is it time for a three-man selection panel for New Zealand?

Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, is peeved with the New Zealand Cricket board for rejecting his application for the position of selector

Stephen Fleming, the New Zealand captain, has denied claims that his batting slump against Australia was due to the overbearing style of John Bracewell, the coach

Verdict

Australia's current side is the country's best-prepared unit, but Ricky Ponting's planning for the first Twenty20 international against New Zealand tomorrow was a hasty affair

Earlier this week we carried an article critical of Sky TV's cricket coverage in New Zealand

Summer may not have arrived in New Zealand but the Christmas turkey did and, as New Zealanders pile into their cars and head for the holiday spots, television becomes all-important for cricket fans to keep in touch with the international season

Now that a New Zealand team has had its first exposure to Twenty20, the abbreviated form of cricket sweeping England, there will be a high degree of interest in whether New Zealand Cricket is tempted to adopt the game permanently

The ICC has named Kapil Dev, Michael Holding and Ian Healy among 12 former players and media representatives for the voting academy to select the world's best players of the past 12 months at the ICC Awards in September