The BCCI's broadcast rights deal with Star demonstrates that the value of cricket will not diminish, board president N Srinivasan tells Swetha Kannan, in Business Line

By Soham Sarkhel, India

The IPL has been a terrific spectacle, wonderfully entertaining, only don't call this cricket, says Soumya Bhattacharya, writing for Hindustan Times .

Sachin Tendulkar's six off Albie Morkel in the opening match of IPL 2012 demonstrates that his genius lies in the fact that he’s found a way to use the basics of batting even when he’s going against the rules, says Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in his

As the cash-rich IPL kicks off, Ayaz Memon, writing for Mint , looks back at how cricket's power shift began with the then BCCI president NKP Salve - who died on Sunday - bringing the 1987 World Cup to the subcontinent.

By Rahul Oak, USA

BCCI president N Srinivasan may be rather adventurous in his dealings for his cement business, but when it comes to cricket, he prefers to stick to the tried and tested, find Sriram Srinivasan and Karthik Subbaraman in Economic Times .

Can cricketers' values be measured like in the movie Moneyball

It would be wrong to view Hobart as the most misleading of false dawns for New Zealand, says an editorial in the New Zealand Herald .

Logan Savory, writing for Fairfax NZ News , says Kane Williamson should concentrate more on the longer format if New Zealand are to get serious about becoming the best test-playing nation they can be.

Suresh Menon, writing for Cricket Next , says sportsmen are more valuable on the field than off it, and it is only human to try and keep them there for as long as it is commercially viable.

The Old Batsman blog reminisces about a cricket match in Ever Decreasing Circles , an old, English sitcom

Former India captain Nari Contractor talks to Mid-Day 's Clayton Murzello half a century after a skull injury caused by a Charlie Griffith delivery ended his international career.

Sachin Tendulkar's achievement of 100 international centuries prompts Shishir Hattangadi to explore what a three-figure innings means to a Mumbai batsman, in Mid-Day .

One good turn deserves another, and Jacques Rudolph knows it

Is there any good reason the Asia Cup is still with us, asks Osman Samiuddin, writing in the National .

Kunal Pradhan, writing in the Mumbai Mirror , recalls a forgotten afternoon in Nagpur that sums up why the India won’t find another like Rahul Dravid.

Things are on the up for the Australians, says their captain Michael Clarke, writing for News Limited at the end of his team's home season.

Australia's tour of the West Indies has been turned into a real yawn, thanks to the cricket overkill, says Stuart MacGill, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald .