The Surfer
Former Victoria wicketkeeper Darren Berry writes on the excessive importance given to fitness.
As selectors Merv Hughes and David Boon preside over the current crop of players, they should remember what made them champions. Neither of them broke too many running records ... They were successful because of their strong minds, high level of skill and above all else, their massive hearts.
John Dyson looks at Pakistan's most celebrated cricket fan , Abdul Jalil, or Chacha Cricket (Urdu for Uncle Cricket), and Jimmy Saville, the cheeleader for the Barmy Army:
The Sportstar interviews Glenn McGrath , the man who has the highest number of scalps for any fast bowler, 67 per cent of whom are batsmen number one to six in the batting order.
If the mandarins at Sky Sports' Osterley offices were hoping that this winter's cricket would afford them a quiet time ahead of next summer, when they start their controversial and far-from-acclaimed monopoly of domestic coverage, Matthew
Nothing can rival Sky for paucity of ambition, anaemic smugness of presentation, and the soporific sourness of their commentatary.
Ray White, a former UCB president, goes to watch a top of the table clash between the Highveld Lions and the Cape Cobras at the Wanderers and writes about the quota system in action
Agarkar, who turns 28 next month, spoke to Lokendra Pratap Sahi about his bowling, batting, being in and out of the team, playing under different captains and lots more
I was picked as a bowler and continue to be picked as one... It’s okay for the public to think of me as an allrounder but, really, the team management must think that way... Despite being picked as a bowler, people blame me for my batting... When my primary job is to get wickets, I don’t see why my batting should come under pressure...
It seems that when Matthew Hoggard was fined for dismissing Salman Butt in the first Test, it wasn't because of overappealing afterall
Neil Manthorp writes on South Africa's red hot run:
South Africa's commanding victory in Hyderabad has put the Australian media and public on high alert ... Thanks to the clinical efficiency of the Iceman Kallis in Hyderabad, Australians are also starting to look ahead with a sense of caution, even nervousness.
Peter May writes on the nail-biting finish at Multan: England have faltered like the Nazis advancing on Stalingrad - marching forward with ill-deserved confidence and woefully ill-equipped for the conditions, the invaders’ weapons redundant
England have faltered like the Nazis advancing on Stalingrad - marching forward with ill-deserved confidence and woefully ill-equipped for the conditions, the invaders’ weapons redundant making brutal defeat a crushing inevitability.
As West Indies floundered at the Bellerive Oval, Peter Roebuck and Mike Coward bemoan the fall of a cricketing pillar.
