The Surfer

For a man who wasn't deemed good enough to make the one-day outfit in the World Cup, Alastair Cook has surprised many with his outstanding ODI form in the home season

With England's cricket season nearing its conclusion, the Daily Mail's Paul Newman chats with Nasser Hussain and David Lloyd to recap a year in which England reached the top of the Test rankings

Osman Samiuddin, writing in the National , looks back on the magic that was once cricket in Sharjah, as the venue prepares to make a comeback on the global stage.

Though it can be a little startling on first viewing, Eoin Morgan's wobbly-kneed, crouching trigger movement is simply a technical refinement, writes Barney Ronay in The Spin Guardian blog

MS Dhoni is the most overworked cricketer in the country and the selection committee should seriously think about protecting him, writes Suresh Menon on espnstar.com .

The larger debate on accountability in Indian sport has been overshadowed by how the new sports bill will affect cricket writes Kunal Pradhan in the Mumbai Mirror

"It is a very tough individual sport within a team game and I love watching it," says All Blacks star Conrad Smith, who played cricket right till he started university

Ricky Ponting’s absence for Australia’s second Test against Sri Lanka – he flew home for the birth of his second child – is an opportunity for the younger generation to display their credentials for Test cricket

It's time to have a look at some of the players picked for the ODIs in England and see if they have been anywhere near selection for the Indian team, says Sunil Gavaskar

England overwhelming their opponents has been admirable but not as exciting as the domestic scene, writes Vic Marks in the Observer .

Saad Shafqat, writing in the Dawn , says Lahore’s great Test centre is no ordinary stadium and it is a travesty for it to carry the name that it does.

Tom Alter, writing for Firstpost.com , looks back on Farokh Engineer's career

In their 96 one-day internationals since the end of the 2007 World Cup, England have tried 19 different opening combinations between 12 players writes Steve James in the Sunday Telegraph

While sports bodies must be autonomous and free, they also have a responsibility to be accountable and transparent, Venkatesh Nayak writes in DNA

Australia's win in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle has shown that while they have not turned into a team of world beaters, they continue to play organised cricket, writes Peter Roebuck in the Herald on Sunday

Unimpressed by the predictability of limited-overs cricket, Greg Baum says, in the Age , it was refreshing to see Nathan Lyon and Trent Copeland stick to the basics of Test cricket in Galle.

Peter Roebuck, in the Sydney Morning Herald , says Ricky Ponting is looking fit, light and alert, but his dismissals in Galle suggest his mind is the one thing letting him down.

The Daily Telegraph's Tom Sangster tells the story of how four balls in a third-grade game in 2005 transformed Trent Copeland from a wicketkeeper-batsman to a seamer.

The specific purpose of Ajay Maken’s National Sports Development Bill was to gain control of the cash-rich Board of Control for Cricket in India, writes Ashok Malik in the Pioneer

A wicket off his first ball in Test cricket and a five-for on debut ..