The Surfer
Shane Warne plays his last game for Hampshire before shoulder surgery in Australia
There is a curious feeling of irrelevance marring this one-day series, feels Mike Atherton.
Lancashire’s Mal Loye hasn’t given up hope of an England call-up; after all, if his county team-mate Glen Chapple can get one at the age of 32, then there’s always time for Loye, who is just a shade older at 33
India's young brigade has been a little tardy in revealing its talent to the cricketing world but the precocious ability of the players will soon be exposed for all to see and admire, writes Frank Tyson
"If you think too much about why I am not scoring runs or what I am doing wrong..
"Former England captain Nasser Hussain recently wrote that cricket is much more professional and multi-dimensional these days
Mike Selvey recounts the times when a glass of water in death-like humidity was just a mere mirage - with examples from his own playing days, when the curse of the Albatross struck
Opening the bowling beneath the ramparts of the old Dutch fort in Galle, in extreme heat, but more pertinently drenching humidity and flat calm, it felt as if I was breathing in flames while simultaneously being hit in the chest with a sledgehammer.
Kevin Pietersen’s name is being lent to many products at the moment, predictably enough – but he hasn’t even played the new computer game named after him.
Superstardom appears to have turned the appealing brashness into arrogance. He has also cultivated that affectation particular to self-absorbed sportsmen, of referring to himself in the third person.
A Barmy Army Australian representative has his secret plan for more Ashes tickets exposed in The Age .
"Due to the appalling lack of tickets they have given the lads, we have decided to help them. This way more England lads and a lot fewer dingoes ... It's just one more way of keeping out your loud-mouth Aussie workmate, who you know you really hate so you can give him or her the finger when they say, 'I wish I had a ticket'."