It's fair to say that Australia has not embraced Twenty20 cricket to the same extent as other nations

The end of the county season draws nigh and for Richard Montgomerie, it's been a pretty successful campaign

South Africa's thrilling victory in last night's opening encounter against West Indies at Johannesburg has given the ICC World Twenty20 the perfect start

Australians, you sense, have not quite caught the World Twenty20 bug

Owais Shah made his ODI debut in 2001

It's getting hot in Melbourne, and water is in short supply

Ashley Giles' retirement from cricket was announced during the first day of the Oval Test, almost two years since his efforts on the same ground helped England to win the 2005 Ashes

Simon Barnes, writing in The Times , is less than impressed with England's new mouthy attitude

How is it possible that Zimbabwe Cricket has more influence in the governance of the game than the serial world champions, Australia

England's antics in the second Test at Trent Bridge continue to cause ripples in the media, not least in The Daily Telegraph , where Michael Henderson takes particular exception to the lippiness of Matt Prior and Alastair Cook, who have both spoken

The fascinatingly childish antics of both England and India at Trent Bridge this week have been greeted with glee Down Under

It was, by any stretch of the imagination, a monstrous weekend for British sport - the Wimbledon men's final, the Silverstone Grand Prix, the start of the Tour de France

Brian Lara is coming out of retirement for a one-off Twenty20 match in August, as part of the 125th-anniversary celebrations for his old club, Warwickshire

Three months on, Bob Woolmer's mysterious death in Jamaica still casts a shadow over the world of cricket

Writing in The Daily Telegraph , Kate Hoey, the former Sports Minister, demands that her successor, Richard Caborn, takes the same stance that the Australian government recently took, and demands a boycott of Zimbabwean cricket.

In a typically impassioned article, the chief sports writer of The Times , Simon Barnes, hits out at sport's current obsession with money over excellence, citing the West Indies' miserable tour as a prime example.

Worcestershire's Australian opening batsman Phil Jaques will miss the first four games of the Twenty20 Cup after returning home for "family reasons''.

Chris Gayle

The Guardian's Tanya Aldred reminisces about the 1984 West Indies tour of England, when she and her similarly agog brothers queued for the autograph of the mighty Joel Garner

Writing in The Independent , the former England seamer turned journalist Angus Fraser explains why he accepted an invitation to join the Schofield Committee that investigated the failings of England's cricket team in the Ashes and World Cup, despite