Whatever happens in the “dead” ODI in Perth, South Africa have progressed quicker than we might have anticipated in cleaning the slate and engineering an upturn after the England debacle, writes Rob Houwing on Sport24 .

England's team for the final warm-up match against West Indies A, should have come as no surprise

Andrew Symonds could lose his career over a radio prank

Players such as Sunil Joshi, Ranadeb Bose and Yere Goud performed consistently in the Ranji season gone by and they deserve to be commended, but that does not serve any purpose when one is looking at the future

The continued disregard of Titans opening batsman Gulam Bodi by the national selectors is what concerns me this week, writes Zaahier Adams in Independent Online .

Much more than the sum of his parts, Matthew Hayden relied on relationships with his team-mates, writes Gideon Haigh in the Guardian .

The performances of the England cricket team since they won the Ashes so memorably in 2005 would lend credence to the notion that their players, even the side's stars in Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, do not walk on water

India's new young allrounder Ravindra Jadeja has blazed a glittering trail through domestic cricket, writes Dileep Premachandran in the Guardian .

In this week of fresh starts and renewed hope, has English cricket found, in Andrew Strauss, its Barack Obama

Travelling on the same flight as an international cricket team might be exciting for fans but it could also be a nuisance to those passengers hoping to arrive at their destination on time

Captain Chaos, aka Kevin Pietersen, is the lynchpin in a fiendish plan to wreak havoc prior to the Ashes, writes Alex Parker in the Times in South Africa.

Virender Sehwag once said the only difference between him and Tendulkar was in their bank balance

Australia are currently clinging on to the No

England travel to West Indies with a back-room set-up not seen for two decades

Maldives and Bhutan registered decisive wins in the final round of preliminary matches in the Asian Cricket Council Trophy Challenge in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Saturday.

Matthew Hayden and Harbhajan Singh have had a few spats and Hayden revealed after his retirement when it all began.

Will Swanton interviewed Matthew Hayden for the Sun-Herald .

Look for controversy and Vettori in the same sentence and you'll come up with a very small list

It's hardly worth taking seriously a list that claims Derek Underwood was a greater bowler than Shane Warne, writes Andy Bull in the Guardian .

Why am I so unimpressed by sportsmen's drinking escapades