The Surfer

Dileep Premachandran argues in the National that the IPL is not helping produce the bowling talent the Indian side needs

Where is India's bowling back-up?

What's wrong with cricketers earning large sums of money, Dileep Premachandran asks in the Sunday Guardian

Players are soft targets

In his Hindustan Times column, Ian Chappell analyses the different types of fans that follow cricket - the humourous ones from the Caribbean, the perseverant ones from India, and more.

Of fans and fanatics

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

He's all smiles but is this the new Flintoff?

In the Independent on Sunday , Jon Culley says: "The temptation to hail Ben Stokes as the new Freddie Flintoff – maybe even the new Ian Botham – has already proved too much for some to resist

"In the next week or two Andrew Strauss will meet with Andy Flower to discuss whether a fifth country will need a new one-day captain," writes Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph

'Strauss must stay and groom Cook'

In the News on Sunday , Dilanka Mannakkara says Tillakaratne Dilshan may not be as diplomatic and well-read a captain as Kumar Sangakkara was, but he is aggressive and daring, and the risk may pay off for Sri Lanka.

The Dilshan risk

Few other major sporting events change their format from one edition to the other as the cricket World Cup does, Saad Shafqat muses in the News on Sunday

A constantly changing tournament

In the country versus club debate, which is the inevitable consequence of the way IPL is structured, we fail to address one simple fact: Who is responsible for creating a situation where players get pitted against their respective boards which is

Who is the greediest of them all?

As cricketers from across the globe do battle in the IPL, a home-grown revolution is happening 3000 miles away

Cobras and lizards fail to stop play on Bali

Harbhajan Singh is a great, while he's just stepping on to cricket's ladder, R Ashwin tells Sanjjeev K Samyal in an interview in the Hindustan Times

R Ashwin: happy to wait his turn

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

'Sachin Tendulkar is my hero' - Mahesh Bhupathi

India's tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi, writing in DNA , says despite being fully aware of the fact that athletes cannot perform daily, he selfishly expects Sachin Tendulkar to score every time he bats for India

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The rise of Wahab Riaz

Over the past year, Wahab Riaz has become one of the brightest prospects in Pakistan cricket

S Sreesanth talks to Prasanth Menon in the Times of India on his performance in the World Cup, why he considers India captain MS Dhoni his brother, and his goals for the future.

'Dhoni's like my brother'

England's team director Andy Flower is unlikely to be tempted by any offer to replace Gary Kirsten as the India coach, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian but the ECB would do well to make sure their diamond is not purloined by a third party, be

ECB need to nurture Flower

In the Guardian , Frank Keating looks back at the rivalry between Glamorgan and Gloucestershire, and the role played by the combative allrounder Wilf Woolley in fostering it

Wilf Wooller v Gloucestershire

In the Daily Telegraph Scyld Berry looks back at his four years as editor of Wisden, and makes it clear he is unhappy at losing the job after a relatively short stint

Change in editors at Wisden

If the England and Wales Cricket Board was worried about Andy Flower being lured away by Indian cricket’s largesse, it clearly does not know its man, says Derek Pringle in the Daily Telegraph

Flower won't be tempted by Indian money

Tillakaratne Dilshan's appointment as Sri Lanka captain is justified, writes Rex Clementine in the Island because there is no doubting that he has been the best Sri Lankan batsman across all three forms of the game over the last couple of years

Return of the prodigal

Bihar's Moin-ul-Haq stadium last hosted an international match in 1996 when Zimbabwe played Kenya in the World Cup

A stadium gone to seed