The Surfer

The BCCI has been coddled with many privileges, and no accountability, says Rohit Mahajan in Outlook India , and the RTI Act might change that.

The pursuit of accountability

When Vinod Kambli was a teenager, many cricket commentators reckoned he was more talented than Sachin Tendulkar

Vinod Kambli's tragic talent show

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Is cricket the world's second-most popular sport?

The Economist 's sports blog, Game Theory, uses several parameters to analyse what the game's second-most popular sport after football is

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

How to globalise cricket

Is it necessary to target the USA in an effort to increase cricket's global appeal

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

What's the point of Indian domestic tournaments?

As the Indian domestic season kicks off with the Irani Cup in Jaipur, Deepak Narayanan, writing in the Mumbai Mirror , says the BCCI – obsessed as it is by its new and glitzy money spinning leagues – needs to decide what purpose tournaments such

Barney Ronay profiles Stuart Meaker, who's been picked for England's ODI series in India, in The Observer .

Meaker's meteoric rise

The tributes to the late Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi continue, this time in the Economist , which praises Pataudi for being the man who taught Indians "that they could take on any country, on their own turf or not, and win".

The King of Indian cricket

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Shoaib has a right to be heard

Pritish Nandy, writing in the Mumbai Mirror , says, as brilliant as Sachin Tendulkar is, he doesn't deserve a Bharat Ratna

Ashok Malik pays tribute to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi in the Deccan Chronicle .

'O captain! My captain!'

The Independent 's Brian Viner caught up with Makhaya Ntini and Glenn McGrath at the Archbishop Tenison's School in Canterbury, while Andy Roberts and other fast-bowling greats had a bit of a bowl against the pupils

Talking shop at a gathering of fast-bowling greats

Aakash Chopra says in the Hindustan Times that Indian cricketers have been fudging their ages since the time he was playing

Age problem not new in India

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

'Long season of endless enjoyment'

Stephen Brenkley, in the Independent on Sunday , recaps an excellent summer for England.

Paying tribute to MAK Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar in the Hindustan Times writes that besides Pataudi's cricket skills, his wit and humour stood out

'There will never be another one like Pataudi'

India's reluctance to accept the Decision Review System is regrettable writes Peter Roebuck in the Hindu

India's reluctance over DRS a mistake

Dominic Cork has retired from professional cricket

Cork and England's forgotten decade

One of India's most charismatic cricketers, and one of the youngest Test captains, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi died on September 22

Miss you, Tiger

New Zealand Cricket CEO Justin Vaughan stepped down from his position earlier this week, and writing in the The Press , Geoff Longely observes that much of the time when Justin Vaughan headed NZC it was in turmoil either on or off the field

How much did NZC benefit from Vaughan?

It's been 25 years since the second tied Test was played in Chennai featuring India and Australia

'It was a fair result in the end'