The Surfer

Rob Smyth, in the Guardian , looks back at the career of Kim Hughes, a story also captured in the book Golden Boy by Christian Ryan.

The BBC 's Alison Mitchell was at the first day-night first-class match in England, between Kent and Glamorgan in Canterbury, and got the reactions of players, coaches and fans on the experiment with the pink ball.

Curtly Ambrose, who was inducted into the ICC's Hall of Fame during the ICC awards ceremony in London, tormented some of the best batsmen of his era, Rob Bagchi writes in the Guardian

Sourav Ganguly talks to the Times of India about India's dismal tour of England, and says that India looked ordinary without Zaheer Khan

Stuart Broad's shoulder injury leaves his Twenty20 side searching for leader

Andrew Wallace, the doctor who operated on Sachin Tendulkar's elbow and Virender Sehwag's shoulder, tells the Indian Express' Sandeep Dwivedi about the experience.

Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook have an aversion to flamboyancy but nothing could contain the air of triumph as England swept the board at Monday's ICC awards, writes Barney Ronay in the Guardian

Australia deserved considerable credit for their tireless efforts to shift a Sri Lankan batting order intent on survival

No individual in the game's history has had such an impact on his team's fortunes as Muttiah Muralitharan, Dileep Premachandran says in the National

Vikram Kapur, writing in the Hindu , says while fellow Maratha Anna Hazare straddled the Indian consciousness like a larger-than-life Bollywood hero in August, Sachin Tendulkar went in the opposite direction with an unconvincing performance in

Today is Lala Amarnath's birth centenary

England have called the shots against India so far on green pitches that have fuelled their dominance

Peter Roebuck points out some lessons to be learned from the poor crowds at the Pallekele Test in the Natal Witness

Shouldn't the board secretary sacrifice the interests of his IPL team for the larger interest of Indian cricket, asks Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times .

Sandipan Deb explains in Mint why he won't be watching the Champions League T20 later this month

Venkat Ananth, writing for Yahoo Cricket , says Ajinkya Rahane has shown talent, technique and temperament in England, and has looked every bit the top-grade cricketer.

Geoff Miller, England's national selector, has overseen the most settled regime in the post war history of English cricket

In Mint , Aakash Chopra recounts a harrowing trip to Dharmashala in 2007 for a first-class match against Himachal Pradesh

Michael Holding, in Firstpost.com , says India's captain cannot really prevent England from dominating with the bowlers he has at his disposal.

Abu Choudhury, writing for BanglaCricket.com , examines Shakib Al Hasan's fall from grace