The Surfer

Big hits and big money make for dark future

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Smith and Warne told to end gutter battle

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

A man who refuses to give in

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Where does cricket go from here?

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

When Boycott posed as WG Grace

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"

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Jones injured, England bleed

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Six reasons not to become an opener

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Johannesburg '06 was the greatest

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

The greatest one-dayer ever ... or was it?

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Fleming spoof interview embarrasses Sky TV

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Anoraks in ecstasy after South Africa win

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Heart of oak

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Greg, tone it down

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

A new googly, and it’s Anil Kumble reinvented

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Pietersen cut goes over school boundary

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.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Laxman needs dramatic re-entry to remain a force

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

India's new Mr Cricket looking to bottom line

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Beaten, but what a swell party it was

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

'Weekes is out!' echoed all over NZ

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

An ice way to play the game

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

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

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