Jamie Alter

SR Pathiravithana, in his column for the Sunday Times , says that Kumar Sangakkara, the heir apparent to Mahela Jayawardene, has finally has got his chance to prove his credentials

England are now ranked sixth in the ICC's Test table and any expectations of a repeat of the drama of the 2005 Ashes series are receding fast

Its off with the pyjamas and on with the flannels, says Mark Richardson in the New Zealand Herald

Peter Roebuck watched Phillip Hughes and Ricky Ponting bat together in Durban and says the pair, rookie and veteran, seemed to enjoy batting together, not so much to rub salt into wounds as for the sheer pleasure

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Writing in Sri Lanka's Sunday Times , Chaminda Vaas recalls the horrific shootout in Lahore

SR Pathiravithana, in his column for the Sunday Times , says Sri Lanka were compounded by the blight of terrorism at home from their very infancy in Test cricket and 30 years on, they seem to have developed their own antidotes to it

Mike Coward, writing in the Australian , says Pakistan must embrace playing at neutral venues or perish from the consciousness of the international cricket community.

The former New Zealand wicketkeeper Adam Parore has strong views on the shootout in Lahore and what ramifications it has for world cricket

An editorial in the Indian Express takes the case of former New Zealand fast bowler Ewen Chatfield, who now drives a taxi in Wellington, and makes the point that cricket needs more IPLs and ICLs, free of boundaries of nationality and monopoly, as

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has already positively gushed about his team's top order heading into the ODIs against India

Mistaking the letter ‘H’ painted in the corner of a cricket field an unlucky pilot landed a helicopter smack in the middle of a domestic cricket game in India

The Observer's chief sports writer, Kevin Mitchell, believes that the fear of a power shift towards India led the ECB to embrace Sir Allen Stanford

In 2008, Sri Lankan cricket was running backwards as if it was in a mighty hurry to fall over the cliff and then once a ‘may-be’ life line was thrown it has begun to float on like a rudderless ship, says SR Pathiravithana in Sri Lanka's Sunday

Growing up with a cricketing family equipped Stuart Broad with a fierce appetite to succeed, surmises Vic Marks, and Andrew Flintoff's injury has given the Nottinghamshire bowler a chance to stake a claim as a frontline bowler

The severing of all ties between the ECB and Sir Allen Stanford has not stopped the landslide of criticism threatening to swallow up chairman Giles Clarke

During the Antigua Test, as the locals "were drawn to the rickety stadium like pilgrims", James Lawton says that the management was told to turn off the music and increase the volume of the television commentary.Writing in the Independent , Lawton

As the whole Sir Allen Stanford business goes up in smoke and he becomes the latest billionaire lurking behind an impenetrable thicket of alleged lies, let's not blame poor alleged Sir A for being a monumental power-drunk, publicity-crazed vulgarian

Although clearly in pain from his injured right hip, Andrew Flintoff bowled on a tense final day in Antigua, sending down two spells before leaving the field wicketless

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