The Surfer
The English newspapers reacted to the serious crowd trouble which followed the abandonment of the Guwahati ODI with almost resigned acceptance.
As a vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, it could be argued that Lalit Modi is the most important cricket administrator in the world today, writes Michael Atherton in the Sunday Telegraph .
An intriguing tale from the USA of an expat from India who arrived six years ago and turned to one of the country’s homegrown sports – baseball.
"Growing up in India I knew baseball was a sport. 'I knew the Yankees were 'the best team. But I didn't even know what teams they played for. I didn't even know who the Red Sox were.
Nabila Ahmed meets Mohammad Ashraful , Bangladesh's shining star
Mark Footitt , the 20-year-old left-armer from Nottinghamshire, is one to watch argues Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph :
When Duncan Fletcher talks about "the exciting young talents" which inspire him to continue at an age when other coaches are flagging, Footitt is thought to be the one he particularly has in mind.
iafrica.com sports editor Dan Nicholl comes up with an ingenuous proposition for injecting a little life into very forlorn stands in domestic games
The success of England 'A' players Alastair Cook, Owais Shah and James Anderson in India is a tribute to coaching director Peter Moores , says Vic Marks in the Observer .
Mike Atherton writes that England and India have different attitudes towards one-day cricket but feels that if England don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, they had better get used to the idea.
Ahead of Wednesday's launch of the 143rd Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, its Editor, Matthew Engel, provides another sneak-preview of the decisions behind choosing the five Cricketers of the Year in today's Times
FOUR days from now the 2006 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack will be published, the 143rd. It will report, as it has not done since edition No 125, how England won the Ashes. And it will announce, as it has done every peacetime year since No 26 (1889), the names of the Cricketers of the Year.
Mike Haysman in Supercricket pays tribute to a lionhearted batsman,showing just how Test cricket should be enjoyed.
I asked him when he decided to throw all the medical advice out of the window and prepare to bat. He said he wasn’t exactly sure but as things were reaching a climax and Clarke was dismissed, he automatically retreated to the back of the change room.