The Briefing

Men behaving badly, men behaving too nicely to be true. And Harmanpreet. In our prize-giving look back at the year that was

Australia are annoying teacher's pets again, India get gold stars for effort, England look for a place to hide their report cards

Featuring a look ahead to forthcoming editions of the competition where the rules are made up and the points don't matter

Beer is currently off the table. These and other important points, including Bairstow's narcolepsy and Carey's war crimes, are up for debate

And India and Pakistan make everyone else uncomfortable with their Asia Cup saga

Get all the hip new cricket nomenclature and much more in this column

Our correspondent tracks down the fraudulent comic who changed Pakistan-Zimbabwe contests forever

Aka everything you wished people would stop saying about the Deepti Sharma-Charlie Dean run out

And how did the BCB punish Shakib for his latest indiscretion?

Won't someone spare a thought for the poor, boring middle child of the game?

Everyone wants a hit of Bazball and the nice-guy stakes have never been higher

We'd certainly not do anything so unjustified and ridiculous

Our correspondent finds that the hottest face-offs in cricket now are currently happening off the field

Our correspondent looks at all the hot topics in cricket, including the Nigerian princes writing emails to Brendan Taylor

Here's the real truth about every team's chances of winning

Our correspondent focuses on the cricket that actually matters

Our correspondent tears himself away from Hundred Twitter to make a request to the BCCI

The WTC mace may have gone to the deserving victors, but only one man was really competing for the other crown

Our correspondent is fed up. And Steve Smith's boring YouTube channel isn't making him feel any better

But what can he do when the damn IPL keeps getting in the way?