The Surfer
Ricky Ponting's wild outburst at Trent Bridge created something rare - a Duncan Fletcher smile
West Indies arrive in Australia next week for three Tests and the tour previews are already starting
The Super Series was largely about making money off the field … but if the Australians appeared to have an extra spring in their step on it, perhaps Gideon Haigh in the Guardian has identified the reason why:
The Australians received a £14,200 match fee and £32,450 each as prize money. Added to his one-day booty, Ricky Ponting's fortnight earned him £75,670. The World's players had to scrape by on their match fee, also £14,200.
Simon Hattenstone feels that the World XI that took on Australia were the cricketing equivalent of The Beatles minus Ringo Starr.
Peter Badel talks to Shane Warne, Brian Lara and Andrew Flintoff about how they handle fame, and the pitfalls that come with it.
Peter Roebuck writes on a day when cricket showed its best and worst faces at the SCG
G Rajaraman analyses the signals that the national selectors have sent out while announcing the captain and the team to play Sri Lanka:
The message to Dravid is clear. The message to Ganguly is clearer: And the message to the rest of the squad is the clearest: Performance would count, not past reputation.
"In the midst of the technology imbroglio," writes Mike Coward , "Jacques Kallis has made a valiant stand for the old-fashioned values of this wonderfully old-fashioned game that is Test cricket."
The debate about the Super Series and third umpires will rumble on for a while yet, but Mark Waugh has no doubts about either:
The Super Test concept doesn't especially grab me. The technology they're trying out doesn't have me convinced either. I'm not being a spoilsport, but I don't really know if we need either of them
