Now nearly a year on from Duncan Fletcher’s resignation as England coach, we can begin to assess how his successors in the selection box are going. It does not look good.

We have opened up our Indian Premier League Fantasy Cricket competition.

Sometimes is pays to keep things simple.

We take a look this week at the big boundary tallies, the dismissals rankings, the venues and crowds, the cricket-ball dimensions, and the most centuries in a single team.

It’s now more than six months since I moved to Oxford (or, to be more accurate, I was moved by parents due to my broken bones rendering me unable to drive). I think now, for the first time, I’m reaching the stage where I’m beginning to feel part of Oxfordshire, rather than on-loan from Devon.

Eddie and the Devil Ducky are currently sick which is preventing articles from being written at the moment. They should be back on board soon.

A new freeware game named Live Cricket 2008 has been released and is available for downloading.

Play Test Match, Limited Overs cricket games on the Mac with 1-player or 2-player mode, batting and bowling, full scorecard and more.

Since transformation and South Africa’s reintroduction to international cricket, much work has been put into developing Black African cricket. There are many different opinions on whether enough has been done and what the correct strategy should be. However, whatever the viewpoint, goodwill and resources have been devoted to this topic and yet the majority of cricketers are still products of the traditional White and Coloured cricketing communities. The relatively small number of Black African cricketers that are coming through are predominantly bowlers. What are the reasons for the lack of Black Batsmen?

A new shareware game has been released named Clash of the Titans which is a text based cricket game written for the MS Access platform.