On the 11th of February I flew to India, Mohali to attend the Global Cricket Academy. I was there with all the Yorkshire batsmen and a couple of the spinners to get some pre-season batting under my belt.

Cricket will never be the same. The game that we know and love has been violently ripped out from under us.

A collection of photos from the Australia v England Women’s Ashes Test match have been uploaded into the photos section.

This week we take a look at the most successful teams at chasing runs in the night; the origins of the free-hit; and that most difficult of questions, who was the best bowler?

A little bit of double meaning in this week’s column. Firstly, a short update on last week’s musings, and then a few thoughts on the lifeblood of amateur societies the world over, the committee.

The “Comeback player of the Year” is an award for a player that through injury, loss of form or other reasons fell from the limelight only to return to prominence with a bang in 2007.

In the third edition of Ask the Spider, we bring you who the best batsman in the world is, the grounds that have had the most ODIs/Tests played at and much more.

I flew out to India on 11th February for a week long batting clinic in Mohali with the other batsmen from the Yorkshire squad.

The Australian Cricket Team, in all forms of the game is bursting with both talent and experience. So one would assume the task of filling the vice captaincy role (made vacant by a retiring Adam Gilchrist) would be a no brainer.

New Zealand’s call-up of the aptly-named Jesse ‘Wider’ Ryder to their one-day squad to face England may have been a surprise to some, but he follows in the knee-deep footsteps of a number of players of equally epic proportions who have made a considerable impact on the game – and on the ground when they landed on it.