The Surfer

Umpires have come a long way since Mike Selvey’s county days

Harsha Bhogle comments in The Indian Express on the nineties made by Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid yesterday :

The Super Series squads have signalled a shift in Australia’s thinking but Malcolm Conn writes in The Australian the selectors shot the wrong man by dropping Damien Martyn from the Test team.

In a candid interview in The Sportstar , Sourav Ganguly chats with S Ram Mahesh about his batting form, captaincy, Indian cricket and more

Rohan Connolly of The Age is not joining the England’s-win-was-great-for-cricket tribe

"The future's bright," says England bowling coach Troy Cooley of the emerging English pace bowlers who are waiting in the wings

England have only just won the Ashes, but they must not allow the dust to settle, says Peter Roebuck

With all the talk of cricket being the new football, The Daily Telegraph ’s Sue Mott takes a humorous look at what the future could hold if this idea was really to become a reality

The post Ashes cash-in is underway, with nine books in the pipeline (and counting) and a swathe of DVDs being rush released

Derek Pringle profiles Alex Loudon , the offspinning allrounder from Warwickshire chosen for the Pakistan tour, and tells us why it wasn't a surprising selection:

It seems to be the topic on most England supporters' lips

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England's success this summer has aroused the interest of politicians whose love affair with football appears to be on the wane

We all know that this is a good age for batting, a shirtfront of an era, as it were

In an essay in the London Review of Books titled " Cricket’s Superpowers ", David Runciman contends that the Ashes is not cricket's biggest rivalry

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Michael Vaughan "hasn't finished yet," writes Vic Marks , as he compares Vaughan's captaincy to Mike Brearley's.

In a piece in the Times , Aki Riihilati talks us through a heady period in English sport through a foreigner's lens: Excitement, big personalities, drama, sportsmanship, skill and a highly competitive mentality — the series offered everything

Michael Atherton takes us through the eight Ashes defeats he was present at, and contrasts them with this series

The unsure future of Australia’s previously dominant line-up has been a hot topic over the weekend