The Surfer

Beyond the IPL, cricket is in trouble

Peter Roebuck, in the Hindu , says while the IPL is growing in stature globally, that should not mask significant setbacks in other parts of the game

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

India's umpiring standards need a boost

While India is cricket's global superpower, there are no Indian umpires on the ICC's elite panel, Kiran More writes in DNA

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Players should have a competitive attitude - Dilshan

Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lanka's new captain talks to Dilanka Mannakkara in the Daily News on the upcoming tour of England,the new-look squad and how he will look to blend his aggressive approach with his captaincy.

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

The IPL is losing its glam factor

Have the Bollywood stars who gave the IPL its glamour in the first few seasons lost their appeal

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Shield cricket inadequacies ail Australia say veterans

Senior players have highlighted the demise of the Sheffield Shield as the root of Australian cricket's tumble from the top says Malcolm Conn, writing in the Daily Telegraph .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

England selectors must look to the future

Geoffrey Boycott in the Daily Telegraph writes that England have been strong enough to make a good first move with their captaincy appointments; they now need to show the same strength and start including some new faces in the one-day and

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

No captaincy ambitions for Swann

Stuart Broad was wearing Graeme Swann's tie when he was unveiled as England's Twenty20 captain at Lord's on Thursday

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

If a ball is bowled and no-one sees it ...

Does anyone give a toss

25-Feb-2013•Brydon Coverdale

Cook could pressure Strauss

The ECB has taken the radical decision to go with three captains, across the three formats, with Alastair Cook taking over the reins of the ODI side from Andrew Strauss, who remains Test captain, and Stuart Broad as captain in the Twenty20 format

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Botham's insults fired me - Amal Silva

Amal Silva , the former Sri Lankan wicketkeeper batsman, who scored a century at Lord's in Sri Lanka's first Test match in England, talks about getting sledged by his hero Ian Botham, choosing the school Prince of Wales ahead of St

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Sri Lanka's history in England

With Sri Lanka set to start their tour of England later in the month, Rex Clementine reminisces, in the Island , about Sri Lanka's win at the Oval in 1998 and other moments of glory on English soil.

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Four-day cricket in Bangladesh is dead

In the Daily Star , Mohammad Isam explains how cricketers in Bangladesh have lost interest in the domestic four-day competition, and how the National Cricket League has come to be dominated by two sides.

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Ganguly's back

An editorial in the Indian Express analyses Sourav Ganguly's inclusion the IPL and states that the one thing we can all learn from his return is: never write Ganguly off.

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

India repeat England's Twenty20 mistake

In the Guardian , Mike Selvey analyses the flagging viewership of IPL 2011, and says India should have learned from England, who went overboard with the number of domestic Twenty20 matches in a season and thus made the novel concept humdrum.

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Cook the wrong choice

With Alastair Cook expected to replace Andrew Strauss as England's one-day captain, Mike Selvey writes in the Guardian that Cook should not even be opening for England in ODIs, let alone captaining

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Parameswaran's quick gains

From being a net bowler for the Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise to picking up the Man-of-the-Match award in his debut IPL game against the Delhi Daredevils, which included the wickets of Virender Sehwag and Y Venugopal Rao, Kochi paceman Prasanth

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Flower's immediate tasks

Andy Flower has renewed his contract as England's team director

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

When the ball came crashing in

Steve James, writing in the Daily Telegraph , relives the - rather hilarious - experience of having the ball come crashing through the window of the room where he was commentating during a Glamorgan game in Taunton.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A test for the county tyros

Since the advent of central contracts, England players have chosen when to appear for their counties, Derek Pringle explains in the Daily Telegraph

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

First WikiLeaks, now CrickiLeaks?

The web has wrought all kinds of innovations in cricket-writing, says Andy Bull, writing in the Guardian

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

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