Vaneisa Baksh takes a look back at West Indies cricket in 2006

Straight off the bat, this is not just about the runs he scored

If the cricket isn't very entertaining at least the after-dinner speeches will keep you awake

Don't remember Damien Martyn's past two weeks when thinking of his wonderful career

While Australia have a strong belief in winning, England are uncertain when to seek victory, writes Ian Chappell

How can cricket operate with such a wide divergence in the doping policies of a national board and the body that runs cricket?

For Sehwag, losing the vice-captaincy can be seen as either a slap on the wrist or a gauntlet hurled down, write Anand Vasu and Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

John Stern worries about the growing number of Test grounds in England why they are now called resorts...

Bob Woolmer on how Mohammad Yousuf has managed to pile on the runs and break Viv Richards's record

McGrath's practice of focusing on precision over pace means he has more fuel in his tank today than faster bowlers writes Michael Holding

Phil Jaques will hope that he doesn't have to do a Mike Hussey and wait till he turns 30 to be a regular in the Australian Test side

The Pakistan board organised a seminar of ex-players, board officials and regional administrators to discuss the path the cricket must take in the country to achieve long-term success

The 2006 edition provided enough good games, clear trends on which teams and players are on the rise and which are on the wane, and plenty to talk about

The notion that a cricketer would cheat has always been seriously at odds with the supposed spirit of the game, and too unpalatable to contemplate

As well as the Caribbean cricketers have progressed as a unit in one-day internationals during the course of this year, too many of them still don't know how to play Test cricket

Top professionals, as the Indian team are, must be inspired by something other than the lucrative financial incentives the BCCI is planning

Intikhab Alam, one of the three-member panel that recommended the ban on Shoaib Akthar and Mohammad Asif, said he was sad but had no regrets about the decision

Instead of a seaming pitch and timid batsmen intimidated by the short stuff, South Africa found themselves up against a man who brooks no answers when in the mood

If Loots Bosman's skin wasn't a golden brown colour, his appearance in the middle on Thursday afternoon would not have raised any eyebrows

The sight of Shoaib spreading his wings in celebration of a kill will become the stuff of legend, a DVD classic, a spook story that mothers will tell their would-be superstar children