The Surfer
Inzy has said he wants to play county cricket:
I would like to play once in county cricket, that is something I have not done as yet. Last year there was an offer from a county but I was not in a position to accept it," he told Reuters on Monday.
Xan Rice of the Observer Sports Monthly meets Duncan Fletcher and tries to get into the mind of a man who has changed his country, his profession, as well as the fortunes of English cricket.
Neil Manthorp introduces the four new faces in the South African side, currently touring Australia:
A former prison warder, a guitar-playing songwriter, a farmer's boy fined for smoking marijuana in Antigua and the man who did most to officially end race quotas in domestic cricket - these four head the new faces in Graeme Smith's South African squad that landed in Perth yesterday.>
Shoaib Ahmed celebrates Brian Lara's ascent to the top of the run-scoring mountain and traces the progression of the record down the years.
The future of Hamish Marshall playing for New Zealand is in doubt , so says Dylan Cleaver:
A couple of nice pushes through the covers off Bracken nudged Marshall's total to five but at the other end, against Lee, he looked lost. Stuck on the crease, he just managed to fend off a Lee ball zeroing in on his heart. Two deliveries later, Marshall, again entrenched on the crease-line, played a feeble push and chopped on to his stumps.
Glamorgan have honoured some of their cricketing greats to have represented the club, including:
The inductees included eight members of the county's Championship winning squad from 1948 - Emrys Davies, Haydn Davies, Arnold Dyson, Johnnie Clay, Len Muncer, Willie Jones, Phil Clift and Allan Watkins.
It is hardly surprising that Andrew Flintoff didn't manage to lay a bat on Danish Kaneria's stunning googly on the final day at Lahore
Vaughan did not have good options, but he had options nevertheless. Not Liam Plunkett perhaps, because a young bowler in his first Test needs some protection, but bowl Paul Collingwood, bowl Ian Bell, bowl anyone, even bowl Shaun Udal.With such a packed year ahead England must take care of their main weapon.
OK, so the feel-good factor over the Ashes is slipping away faster than a Shoaib Akhtar yorker
