Cricket: Kevin Pietersen will have the chance to prove he can be a successful captain when he leads the Bangalore Royal Challengers on his Indian Premier League debut against Rajasthan Royals in Cape Town... more
Cricket: Surrey will be involved in English cricket's biggest ever security operation if a planned Twenty20 World Cup warm-up match between Pakistan and India goes ahead at The Oval... more
Cricket: Sir Allen Stanford's public humiliation is a serious blow to the credibility of the England Cricket Board, and particularly to their newly re-elected chairman Giles Clarke... more
Our annual magazine The 1,000: London’s Most Influential chronicles London’s power-brokers and
agenda-setters. However, in the capital influence can shift quickly. Gideon Spanier looks at who’s in and who’s out.... more
Former England Cricket Board chairman Lord MacLaurin has revealed he believes England will go back to India for their two-Test series but admitted the decision was 'very sad'... more
Sport in general has received a major morale boost with Britain's unexpected success at the Beijing Olympics. Already the excitement is building towards the London 2012 Games.
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Cricket: England's cricketers will know by the weekend whether their £10million match in the Caribbean has been sunk by conflicting commercial interests... more
Cricket: Mark Ramprakash will start what could be his final season with Surrey by serving a two-match ban after pleading guilty to repeatedly swearing at an umpire... more
Middlesex seem certain to take part in the first Champions League this October and play for a first prize of more than £2million. But the event remains closed to Twenty20 Cup runners-up Kent... more
England players could be among those to boycott September's Champions Trophy after the ICC decides against moving the two-week event from Pakistan despite security concerns... more
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