The Surfer

Watching cricket on Indian television, with the incessant stream of adverts, tries one’s patience, says Simon Barnes in The Times

Greg Baum asks in The Age where is the management in the gutter battle between Graeme Smith and the Australians

Peter Roebuck pays tribute to the latest entrant to the 500 club - Anil Kumble

Tom Eaton wonders , post the greatest match of 'em all, in the Mail and Guardian

Frank Keating in The Guardian looks back at the 1981-82 England tour when Boycott moaned; Willis read the complete works of Wodehouse and Gower and Botham were on perpetual lookout for "something drinkable"

The man whom England missed more than any other was Simon Jones , writes Christopher Martin-Jenkins.

This day, 25 years ago, Geoff Boycott was at the receiving end of perhaps the greatest over ever bowled

Peter Roebuck says in the Sydney Morning Herald it was the greatest one-day match ever played .

On Sunday, South Africa and Australia took part in the greatest one-dayer ever

The New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has attacked his former opener, Mark Richardson - he of sprinting in a leotard fame - for comments made after the fourth day's play against the West Indies at Auckland

Stephen Moss, The Guardian columnist, pays tribute to the record-breaking feats of Australia and South Africa at Johannesburg.

R Mohan offers his tribute to Anil Kumble , the new entrant to the 500 club.

In what looks like an open letter to Greg Chappell, Rohit Brijnath in The Sportstar pleads with Chappell to draw the line between professionalism and haste

David Gower eulogises about Anil Kumble and how, the veteran leggie, is still learning new tricks .

Freedom of expression came at a high price for a teenager sent home from school for styling his hair like his cricketing hero Kevin Pietersen.

Shifts are quicker, as dog-fights for the middle order intensifies; nothing is sacrosanct any more, says Harsha Bhogle.

Anybody who doubts India is one of the most nakedly capitalist societies in the world should have watched Lalit Modi, the new power-broker in Indian cricket, at work yesterday

Bruce Pairaudeau, the former West Indies batsman, relives the memory of those dramatic hours at Eden Park 50 years ago, when New Zealand rolled his West Indies side for just 77 in the second innings, to end what is still the longest winless test

The New Zealand Herald spoke with the surviving members of the NZ team about their historic victory over the West Indies 50 years ago - their first in Test cricket

Some cricket-mad types in Estonia have taken to the ice to play the glorious game.