The Surfer

England aiming for No.1 spot - Swann

David Lloyd catches up with Graeme Swann as he prepares for the Test series against Sri Lanka at home

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Bowling in a batsman's game

In the Indian weekly newsmagazine Outlook , Rohit Majahan speaks to some of the world's leading bowlers - Zaheer Khan, Daniel Vettori, Morne Morkel - and India's bowling coach Eric Simons to try and figure out what bowlers need to do to survive in

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

Tishani Doshi reviews Shehan Karunatilaka's book, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew , in the Observer

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Siegfried Sassoon: the bravest cricketer of them all

Scyld Berry, writing in the Daily Telegraph , tells us about Siegfried Sassoon - the soldier and the cricketer.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Woakes aims high

Chris Woakes caught the eye during his international debut in Australia last winter - both with bat and ball - and he's started this domestic season in fine style to keep himself well in the England reckoning

25-Feb-2013•Andrew McGlashan

Time to look beyond the 'Indian Problem League'

The IPL is fast turning into a Frankenstein, says Suresh Menon, writing in DNA

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A toast to the medium-pace bowler

It takes a true connoisseur of the game to appreciate the medium-pace bowler, says Harry Pearson, writing in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Man management, the key to Kirsten's success

Differences in language, culture and religion make India a hard team to manage, says Makarand Waingankar, writing in the Hindu

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

'Fletcher will be a great foil for MS Dhoni'

Michael Vaughan, writing in the Daily Telegraph , says Duncan Fletcher is the best analytical cricket coach he ever worked with

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

England's new, talented kid on the block

Barney Gibson - who broke a 144-year-old record on Wednesday to become England’s youngest first-class cricketer - on getting a call up for Yorkshire's first team and sitting down to homework after dinner

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Regulating agents in Pakistan

Farooq Nomani argues in the Dawn that the PCB's recently released 'Registration of Agents Regulations, 2010' – a set of rules intended to oversee the legitimacy of player-agent arrangements - is inadequate

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Rookies in the role of main performers

Wouldn't it have been a help to West Indies' youngsters to have Ramnaresh Sarwan or Shivnarine Chanderpaul meeting them at the crease at some stage to rotate the strike, to deal with Saeed Ajmal and to take some of the pressure off them during the

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Fact: There's too much darn cricket on

With there being no such thing as a cricket season - unless you’re referring to the period between January 1 and December 31 - cricket is being robbed of it's meaning says Shehan Karunatilaka, writing in Outlook India .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A case of Test v Twenty20, not Country v Club

Sandeep Dwivedi, writing in the Indian Express , says Lasith Malinga has merely chosen a format of the game that suits his frail physical condition

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Left-arm spinners to try the <i>doosra</i>?

With Daniel Vettori saying the day when a left-arm spinner will bowl the doosra is not far, S Dinakar, writing in the Hindu , examines the implications of such an innovation.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Playing yourself in is yesterday's news

The Old Batsman takes a look at a recent IPL game and wonders whether 'playing yourself in' is as important as people once assumed.

25-Feb-2013•Sahil Dutta

From slow-low to a belter

Over 400 runs were blasted at the Feroze Shah Kotla in the IPL game between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab on Saturday

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Cricket in the National Baseball Hall of Fame

Cricket is still to make make big strides in the USA but Peter Della Penna, writing on the website dreamcricket.com observes that visitors have reacted positively to experiencing cricket for the first time at National Baseball Hall of Fame.

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

New kids on the block

There's a refreshingly youthful look to many of the squads on the English County circuit, writes Barney Ronay in The Observer , and that bodes well for the future of the national team.

25-Feb-2013•Liam Brickhill

Don't mix cricket and politics

Sushant Sareen, who works with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, writes in Tehelka that Indo-Pak cricket will never be the right vehicle for taking bilateral relations to the next level

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

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