The Buzz

Shane Warne walks on water but is famously partial to beer – even in the middle of an IPL game

Just how far the ECB is prepared to bend over to earn an extra buck - and it would probably win many limbo competitions – might be gauged by its reaction to ESPN-Star’s reported multi-million dollar bid for rights to cover the planned new domestic

Australia haven’t had a match-winning spinner since Shane Warne hung up his boots after the last Ashes series and the situation is serious enough to warrant calling a ‘spin summit’ next month to discuss the issue

It’s not been a good year or two for Bermudan cricket, with poor on-field performances and lurid off-field tales dogging the side

Which IPL team opens with the ‘Rock at the top’ and the ‘Cannon’

Not to be outdone by the Englishmen who played cricket on Mount Everest, Mark Waugh and thirteen other tough Aussies climbed three of the highest mountains in Australia in only three days

When Shahid Afridi walked out to bat for the first time in a one-day international, against Sri Lanka in Nairobi in 1996, the bat in his hands once belonged to someone who had played many memorable innings, and several of them against Pakistan

Afghanistan, the newest ICC country to be inducted into their enjoyably competitive list of one-day nations, have won their first ODI

Don’t run singles at high altitude

The sight of a sibling celebrating your misfortune can be heartbreaking, but what Jacques Kallis had to endure was much worse

The hunt is on for a stolen watch once owned by the legendary 1868 Australian indigenous cricketer Johnny Mullagh, and pawn shop dealers and collectors have been alerted to inform the Geelong police in case thieves try to sell it

The mystery of the "fake IPL player" deepens

Michael Vaughan was at Lord’s the other day

They’ve done it

George Bush tried – and failed – to swat a tennis ball with a cricket bat on a trip to Pakistan in the dog days of his presidency, but the meeting between Brian Lara and President Barack Obama in Trinidad was an altogether more successful affair.

Things just aren’t going right for the Kolkata Knight Riders

Reports of the IPL’s dwindling popularity in Season 2 are grossly untrue - just ask the prisoners in Kolkata’s Alipore Central Jail, who have gone on a hunger strike in protest against not being allowed to watch the tournament

Cricket is likely to make the pages of OK and Hello is the coming weeks after the revelation that Chelsy Davy, former partner of Prince Harry, has been “spending time” with South Africa’s captain Graeme Smith.

The IPL is clearly making its presence felt in South Africa, sometimes in unconventional ways, as a local businessman found out to his utter surprise