The Surfer

A week ago billionaire Allen Stanford announced a $28 million investment in Caribbean cricket, mainly via a prestigious new Twenty20 series, but as the reality sets in, the debate has started.

Graeme Smith’s captaincy of the World XI has received a mixed reception

Let’s start the end-of-the-one-day Super Series debate in Melbourne with The Age , the city’s broadsheet

A superb assessment of the not-so-Super Series from Gideon Haigh in the Guardian :

Sanjjeev Samyal watches Shane Warne get some action at his old club.

Peter Lalor in The Australian reports how the world's cricketers now have all the trappings of success:-

Peter Lalor of The Australian writes on the potential of television :

Andrew Flintoff, not content with winning the adoration and respect of Australia's public, has received further praise from Shane Warne - and not just of his cricketing prowess

Children in inner city London are being introduced to a new kind of game - tapeball cricket - to get them into cricket, writes Matthew Pryor in The Times .

Kevin Pietersen has a new model girlfriend, having made the short hop from Paris to Caprice

Peter Roebuck feels it's the right time to pick Shane Watson in Australia's Test side:

A player-column post today

Malcolm Conn writes on how crucial Shaun Tait's recovery is for Australia and says, "Tait is the only long-term fast-bowling prospect in the country".

China are the latest country to embrace cricket, as Forbes.com reports

Are mixed sex cricket teams outrageous

Mini Kapoor writes in The Indian Express on the tough choice Sourav Ganguly faces ahead of him but is convinced that he has to step down as captain.

Shane Warne was on course to win the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest century of the summer, but he was pipped at the eleventh hour by Ian Blackwell

Sharad Pawar, the Union Agriculture minister who recently contested for the post of board president, speaks to G Viswanath about his passion for sports and youth welfare, love for cricket, and his ways of working with sports federations in an

More interesting than the usual "over the moon" guff, Marcus Trescothick explains to the Daily Telegraph when England realised that they had the better of Australia.

The Age debates whether the Super Series is a great initiative or a gimmick