Till just the other day Amit Mishra would roam around and nobody would give him a second look

It will not surprise those who are familiar with the low-key style of Anil Kumble that his retirement announcement during the tea break on Sunday took some of his own team-mates by surprise

Lured by a $20 million cash jackpot, the men who control English cricket may be inadvertently selling more than their sporting skills, writes Stephen Brenkley in the Independent .

At a time when Test cricket's fortunes are at a low ebb, with the threat from the various Twenty20 tournaments around the world, it is necessary for the two most attractive sides (Australia and India) in the world to play out close finishes and

The fortnight we are amid features an enormously important cricket match

Other captains are used to making the most of limited resources

Matt Prior speaks to Brian Viner in the Independent on various topics - the move from South Africa to England, his mother's illness, the Stanford 20/20 for 20, the number of South-African born players in the England team, the jellybean incident

Cheteshwar Pujara made headlines by scoring back-to-back triple-centuries - 386 and 306 - in the CK Nayadu Under-22 tournament

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are made for each other as openers and they complement each other well, writes Vijay Lokapally in the Hindu .

Economies across the globe are not the only things going up in smoke; the stench of burning is coming from the world of cricket too, writes Bobilli Vijay Kumar in the Times of India .

When a callow teenager wields the willow like a mature batsman, people sit up and watch

Sri Lanka's decision to accept Lalit Modi's $70m offer is comeuppance for the ECB's reluctance to grant the nation Test matches in England, writes Gideon Haigh in the Guardian .

Monty Panesar is a commendable bowler, yet his inability to learn from his own mistakes has been to his detriment, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian .

Ideally the Indians with three good medium pacers in the side should be going in for a pitch that will have true bounce and carry on the first two days, but the management is obsessed with the theory that two spinners should take a majority of