The Surfer
The World Cup is 12 months away from its opening ceremony, but they're still looking for an official airline sponsor
A security official who travelled for 45 days with India's cricketers on their recent tour of Pakistan has said the popularity of the Indian team had certainly gone up among ordinary Pakistanis:
"The popularity of the Indian cricketers surely went up compared to the Indian team's tour of Pakistan in 2004, the first full-fledged one after almost 15 years," Sohail Khan, a senior superintendent of police with Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, said in Karachi before the team's departure for Mumbai.
Ricky Ponting writes in his column in The Australian about his expectations for the South Africa tour .
If the recent round of Tests and limited-overs internationals in Australia provides an indication, it's not just the South Africa players who will be fired up come the opening Twenty20 match in Johannesburg on Friday. We're expecting to cop our fair share from the notoriously outspoken crowds over there.
Mark Waugh believes the limited-overs game has increasingly become very predictable and lopsided and has suggested some changes to make them more interesting.
No leg byes. Batting teams should not be able to be rewarded with runs when the batsman is not good enough to make contact with bat on ball. This rule would obviously benefit the team with the more skilled batsmen.
After his four wickets yesterday and a fifty today, Ian Blackwell is the spinner in waiting for England, argues Derek Pringle in today's Daily Telegraph
A former captain, the iconic Hanif Mohammad looks back at his caree r in an interview with the Kolkata-based daily The Telegraph
That of a West Indian, who would sit on the branch of a tree... Initially, he would taunt, but then began to appreciate my batting and our fightback... On the fourth day, the poor chap fell and had to be hospitalised. Yet, he returned the next afternoon... ‘You’re still there? I’m back, my friend... I’m back’ he kept saying. After the Test got over, Kardar and I invited him to our dressing room for tea and sandwiches. We thanked him for his support and gave a couple of mementos...
When they played South Australia at Adelaide, Sir Donald Bradman walked into their dressing room and asked to meet the man who had broken his record score of 452. Hanif got up, and apologetically said, ''Sir, you will always be the greatest.'' The Don looked him up and down and replied, shaking his head: ''So you are the fellow. I always thought that the batsman who broke my record would be six feet two inches tall. But you are shorter than me!''
England are going to be looking at the world through rose-tinted, er, contact lenses on Saturday
Rajdeep Sardesai, says the proliferation of the game has had its impact, not just on the way the game is played but also on the manner in which it is covered in the media.
Paul Weaver reports in The Guardian about Cricinfo’s record-breaking day of more than two million page unique users on Monday.
Only the official websites of NBA (basketball), NFL (American football) and MLB (baseball) enjoy comparable success among global single-sport sites. Cricinfo currently records in excess of 250 million page views per month, with the homepage alone recording more than 50 million page views per month.