The Surfer

Wake-up call goes unheeded

Richard Boock feels that John Bracewell's handling of Chris Cairns was good for both the team and Cairns himself.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Cricket v football ... again

So concerned are some of Australia's top cricketers about losing talent to Aussie Rules Football that they have proposed to put aside $1m to secure the future of the sport

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Botham reaches unlikely half century

“Many people thought I’d never make it,” grinned Ian Botham when congratulated on reaching 50

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Money can't buy Langer's love

Having become just the second regular Australian opener to survive beyond 35 since World War II, Justin Langer whose fourth daughter was born a week ago, claims it takes more than money to maintain the desire to play for your country.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Lara's leaving party

As Brian Lara plays what is probably his final Test in Australia Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist recall their experiences with West Indies’ genius

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

What cricket can learn from American football

We should consider compromises like those reached in American football, writes Peter Roebuck , whereby each coach is allowed four challenges during a match.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Ashes ardour will come and go with a rush

Charles Happell writes on the crammed schedule for the 2006-07 Ashes series:

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Captain's call

Ricky Ponting says delivering the news to a dropped player is as bad as it gets

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

The Christmas No. 1 is...

Please, say it isn't true

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

An accident waiting to happen

David Hopps says that Steve Harmison's instinctive pick-up and throw, which ran-out Inzamam-ul-Haq, arose from England's unabashed commitment to aggressive cricket but adds that there is a sense that they are pushing the spirit of the game to the

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Blast from the past

The Surfer stumbled on two pieces that evoke history.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Gilo ... the strongest link

Ashley Giles showed that he is also the King of Brains by winning an Ashes special of the Weakest Link

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

One way to make a match fizz

Martin Johnson was in Faisalabad when an exploding gas cylinder briefly stopped play.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Clarke's woes

Trevor Marshallsea writes that Michael Clarke may not get too many chances to make a quick return to the Test side.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Shot in the arm from a student of Tranquillity

Peter Roebuck celebrates Dwayne Bravo's century at Bellerive Oval:

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

The first black man to play Test cricket

With the West Indies now engaged in a Test match in Tasmania for the first time, it's timely to revive our memories about Sam Morris , the first West Indian and the first black man of any nation to play Test cricket

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Fat chance

Former Victoria wicketkeeper Darren Berry writes on the excessive importance given to fitness.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Uncle Cricket lands himself a nice little earner

John Dyson looks at Pakistan's most celebrated cricket fan , Abdul Jalil, or Chacha Cricket (Urdu for Uncle Cricket), and Jimmy Saville, the cheeleader for the Barmy Army:

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

I'm going after 600 Test wickets' - McGrath

The Sportstar interviews Glenn McGrath , the man who has the highest number of scalps for any fast bowler, 67 per cent of whom are batsmen number one to six in the batting order.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Welcome to Sky ... paucity of ambition, anaemic smugness and all

If the mandarins at Sky Sports' Osterley offices were hoping that this winter's cricket would afford them a quiet time ahead of next summer, when they start their controversial and far-from-acclaimed monopoly of domestic coverage, Matthew

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