Dustin Silgardo

No individual in the game's history has had such an impact on his team's fortunes as Muttiah Muralitharan, Dileep Premachandran says in the National

Peter Roebuck points out some lessons to be learned from the poor crowds at the Pallekele Test in the Natal Witness

While sports bodies must be autonomous and free, they also have a responsibility to be accountable and transparent, Venkatesh Nayak writes in DNA

Unimpressed by the predictability of limited-overs cricket, Greg Baum says, in the Age , it was refreshing to see Nathan Lyon and Trent Copeland stick to the basics of Test cricket in Galle.

Peter Roebuck, in the Sydney Morning Herald , says Ricky Ponting is looking fit, light and alert, but his dismissals in Galle suggest his mind is the one thing letting him down.

The Daily Telegraph's Tom Sangster tells the story of how four balls in a third-grade game in 2005 transformed Trent Copeland from a wicketkeeper-batsman to a seamer.

A clearing up of the poor management in Australian cricket has given the players the confidence that they will be rewarded for playing for their team, Patrick Smith says in the Australian

Ajinkya Rahane was depressed because he did not feel his achievements in domestic cricket were being recognised, his Mumbai coach Pravin Amre tells the Indian Express' Devendra Pandey

In the Hindustan Times , Sanjay Dixit, the Rajasthan Cricket Academy secretary, writes that the bill proposed by the sports ministry to regulate all national sports bodies including the BCCI will control the cricket board too much

The BCCI may be the richest cricket body in the world but 70% of the money they earn from television rights goes to its member boards, Nikhilesh Bhattacharya reports in the Hindustan Times

Munaf Patel is enjoying huge support from the Gujarati community in the UK, according to the Hindustan Times' Sanjjeev Karan Samyal

After MS Dhoni's struggles with the gloves in England, former India Test wicketkeeper Nayan Mongia, who toured England in 1996, talks to the Hindu's S

Osman Samiuddin analyses Waqar Younis' resignation as Pakistan coach in the National , and says it was a build-up of small battles that finally led him to quit.

Whether or not he is bumped up to his preferred position, Ian Bell has turned himself into a fine Test batsman, Steve James says in the Telegraph .

In the Guardian , Mike Brearley compares this England side to the one that won the Ashes in 2005, and the current squad comes up trumps, though he prefers Michael Vaughan to Andrew Strauss as captain because the former had more flair

V Gangadhar in the Hindu documents the story of how Mansie, a cricket fan from Mumbai who idolised Malcolm Marshall and West Indian cricket, moved to Barbados and then ended up transforming Marshall's grave.

There have been glimpses of genius from Ishant Sharma in England but not enough consistency to suggest he can take over the role of India's spearhead, Sandeep Dwivedi says in the Indian Express .

Cricket fans in England obviously give people the impression they would be the kind of people interested in stamps

Emmad Hameed traces the history of tape ball cricket in Pakistan in Dawn

In the Daily Telegraph , Malcolm Conn interviews Ricky Ponting on retirement, whether he draws strength from watching Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni's decision to reinstate Ian Bell at Trent Bridge, the hook shot, fatherhood and more.