George Binoy

Ricky Ponting says he wants to continue playing Test cricket and that he feels he can continue to contribute to the success of the team

Ricky Ponting chose this fate

"With Clarke unavailable for one ODI, it seemed logical that either the vice-captain, David Warner, took his place or Haddin returned to the side," writes Ian Chappell in the Courier Mail

In the Sunday Guardian , Dileep Premachandran writes that India's batting greats should bow out like Nasser Hussain, who scored a century in his final Test and timed his retirement perfectly, and not like Kapil Dev and Javed Mianded, who played on

After he was handed a ban in March 2010, Younis Khan’s Pakistan career seemed finished

"It is amusing that the argument for drastic changes still needs to be made

On deeper inspection, the more unsettling aspect of watching Pakistan over the past year - like the feeling, post-advertising, that what you've got is not what you were sold but will have to do - has not been their generally attritional, even dour

"I was surprised with India's decision to field four quicks and I honestly felt Pragyan Ojha would have been a good choice

India have a lot to ponder after the Test losses in Melbourne and Sydney - most pertinently whether the team has once again gone soft when playing overseas, writes Sourav Ganguly in the Sydney Morning Herald .

Writing in the Dominion Post , Simon Doull says New Zealand must use the home series against Zimbabwe to test new talent

"Six successive defeats abroad, the imminent departure of three giants, the crumbling of the Test team: Indian cricket faces its most existential interrogation since the match-fixing scandal

Remember Gavin Robertson, the Australia offspinner who made his Test debut against India in Chennai in 1998, and then fell off the international circuit after a few months

Michael Clarke batted for more than 10 hours to score 329 against India at the SCG

"Indian cricket is in hot water, but it has become hot so slowly that no one has noticed

In the Sydney Morning Herald , Greg Baum leads the tributes to Michael Clarke, who declared Australia's innings when he was batting on 329.

In the Sydney Morning Herald , Greg Baum retells the moment when Ricky Ponting finally ended his century drought.

In the Mumbai Mirror , Deepak Narayanan's complied a tongue-in-cheek list of what certain members of the cricket community would like for Christmas.

"Sixty-four years ago, in a preliminary to India's first tour of Australia, Don Bradman made his 100th 100

As Australia and India prepare for the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, Ted Corbett, writing in the Hindu , reminds them that England have beaten them both in 2011 and that the Border-Gavaskar trophy is a contest for second place.

Matthew Hayden made a splash with his promotion of the Mongoose during the IPL but he’s gone back to the old-fashioned bat for the Big Bash League