This winter I am unsure of my next professional commitment, a lot of exciting prospects are ahead, expecting a baby and also a book that won’t be far way from being on the shelves. So watch this space with developments on all of these things. Till next time.

Australia’s fall in the limited-over rankings has coincided with increasing difficulty in coping with opposition spinners. If the World Cup is to retained, the trend must be reversed.

A look at Australia’s endemic shortage of quality spin bowlers and future directions.

This week we look at the longest ODI over, the most consecutive not-outs, the brothers who opened, and more.

There is absolutely no merit or logic in having a reciprocal series between two teams before two years let alone two months, and certainly not when all eyes are trained on the IPL and their gyrating cheerleaders.

The role of the wicketkeeper has changed greatly over the years, but there are a fair few myths about just how and when these changes happened, as well as how things were before they happened. This is an attempt to examine the truth of the matter.

Where did international cricket begin? NZ Cricketer, Peter McGlashan, tells of his trip through the States to the home of a sporting giant, how different it is from his current home of Bath, and how the two may soon be closer than we could ever have thought.

The English season is two weeks old. The sun is shining, I’ve got myself a sunburn and a seam mark across my left instep, and Ian Bell has made a regulation century on a featherbed at Taunton. Three things that any soothsayer worth their salt would expect to find within their “Captain Obvious” section, right next to the visions of Chris Martin losing his middle stump.

This week we look at the dot-ball sequences, the batsmen who weren’t lbw and run-out, the bowlers who kept getting c&bs, and more.

In a continuing series of articles where we introduce Series Points, a new way of ranking Test players, this time we look at the 1990s.