The Surfer

Homies & POPz, a cricket team from Compton, a city in southern Los Angeles County, have returned from a trip around the world and now want to use the game to get kids in Compton and LA out of gangs and off the street

Cricket goes to Los Angeles

He might not have the flair of a Lara or a Sehwag, but Jonathan Trott's remarkably successful run has allowed England to bat around him and he performs a crucial role for the team, writes John Stern in his blog with The Cricketer

Trott is England's rock

25-Feb-2013•Liam Brickhill

Can Sri Lanka recover?

Looking back at the Sri Lanka's shock defeat in Cardiff, Andy Bull in the Guardian writes that while no one is quite sure how the visitors threw away the first Test, a recovery in time for the second Test is not inconceivable

Bevan Griggs, a regular for over ten seasons with the Central Stags, suddenly found himself unwanted and out of a contract at the age of 32

The harsh realities of life after cricket

Given the number of Pakistan cricketers who have quit and then returned to the game in recent years, Paul Radley says in the National that Shahid Afridi's retirement will probably not last long.

Retiring is a pastime in Pakistan cricket

From BCCI officials hogging the limelight instead of former Indian cricket greats, to a lack of uniformity in the attire of current India players, the BCCI awards ceremony in Mumbai was a poorly organised event

A poorly organised function

The Gautam Gambhir injury controversy is media sensationalism at its worst, writes Ashok Malik in the Hindustan Times .

Club v country and the Indian news media

Both India and West Indies will feature second-string XIs for the opening Twenty20 match of their series

Symptoms of the Twenty20 crisis

With the Friends life T20 tournament starting in England on June 1, Will Hawkes analyses why audiences were at a low last year, in the Independent

Make or break for the English T20 season

In the Independent , Stephen Brenkley recounts how Jonathan Trott, the balding, bottom-handed, risk-free shoveller of a batsman, who has never hit a six in Tests or one-dayers has worked himself up to being England's cricketer of the year.

The no-frills run-machine

Salim Durani will be given the BCCI's Col C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday

Why everyone loves Salim Durani

David Lloyd, writing in the Daily Mail , on Ajantha Mendis' variations, Jonathan Trott's unending innings, the incentive for left-arm spinners to make a comeback this summer and more.

Forget the mystery of Mendis - it's all just lettuce

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

England's great escape, version 2.0

Looking back on England's win against Sri Lanka in the first Test, Johnathan Agnew in his column on BBC Sport writes that there were very few people in the stadium in Cardiff to see one of the most extraordinary England wins in recent years and I

Declining standards, expensive tickets and plummeting crowds but Chris Gayle still offers full value with bat in hand - Dileep Premachandran looks at five things we have learnt from the fourth season of the IPL

What this IPL has taught us

Chris Tremlett picked up four wickets in Sri Lanka's second innings in Cardiff and his role in England's extraordinary victory showed that he has has lost his John Cleese-esque gawkiness and has got the balance right, writes Vic Marks in the

The new, improved Tremlett

Rohit Mahajan and Satarupa Bhattacharjya find out that there's a a growing rumble against the BCCI’s power and the way the body rules the world of cricket

A cracked pitch

Misbah-ul-Haq's comeback in Test cricket has been remarkable, but such is the nature of Pakistan cricket, there is no guarantee how long his run will last, Amir Hussain writes in the National

Misbah shouldn't take anything for ganted

Sachin Tendulkar's decision to rest from India's tour of the West Indies is reflective of the state of cricket in the Caribbean, Fazeer Mohammed writes in the Trinidad Express

The Tendulkar slap

On bbc.co.uk , Jonathan Agnew says Jonathan Trott is the best No

Trott's got the right character for Tests