The Surfer

A great Test but the frailties remain

Australia's performance in the Mohali Test has been both heartening and deeply worrying, writes Malcolm Knox in the BackPageLead

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

A triumph for Test cricket

In the Sydney Morning Herald , Peter Roebuck has praise for VVS Laxman and Ishant Sharma and the Australian team, which tried its utmost but fell short in the nailbiting match in Mohali

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Zaheer continues to get under Aussie skins

Daniel Brettig writes for Australian Associated Press how Zaheer Khan has been a source of irritation for the Australians for several years

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Twenty20 comes to Dravid's rescue

Rahul Dravid has never been tabbed as a limited overs player, despite scoring over 10,000 runs in ODIs

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

TMS' 30 best interviews

In the Observer , Rob Bagchi reviews Test Match Special's anthology of its "30" best selected interviews.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Series flawed, but should be a cracker

Peter Roebuck writes in the Sydney Morning Herald that despite the series being only two Tests and beginning in a venue lacking the charm of India's traditional grounds, the India-Australia series should be a corker.

25-Feb-2013•Brydon Coverdale

Ten good memories from the summer of controversy

It was a season that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons, but Lawrence Booth, in the Wisden Cricketer , has come up with a list of ten positives from England's home summer.

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

England's best offspinner?

Mike Selvey reasons in the Guardian why he believes Graeme Swann is England's best offspinner since Jim Laker and Fred Titmus, and possibly their best ever.

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

Big test for Australia's bowlers

Ricky Ponting writes in his column in the Australian that the experienced and formidable Indian batting line-up will prove a challenge for his bowling line-up

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

India v Australia is main course, not entrée

Andy Bull, in his Spin blog for the Guardian , terms it a sin to look at the India-Australia series as a pre-cursor to the Ashes

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

Boot-camp experience just not cricket

Steve James, writing in the Daily Telegraph , says pre-series excursions like boot camps to get the players to gel better may not achieve the desired results

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Franchise-based model the way forward for India

At a time when India's premier domestic competition, the Ranji Trophy, fields as many as 26 regional sides in two leagues, Venkat Ananth makes a strong case for a franchise-based system with fewer teams to foster excellence

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

First the Ashes, then the World Cup

Onward then and upward

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Amir in the eye of the storm

Masud Alam visits Changa Bangal, Mohammad Amir's village in Pakistan, and speaks to family and friends about one of their very own at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Drop Cook, play Morgan

England are taking Eoin Morgan to Australia and Duncan Fletcher, writing in the Guardian , says its critical that they fit him into the team at No

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

What next for Pakistan?

As Pakistan depart England after a tour besieged by grave controversy, James Lawton, writing in the Independent , says cricket must not cast them into the wilderness.

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Who will defend the Ashes for England?

England will take an official party of 16, but in effect this will be doubled by the performance squad that will be in Australia not just to provide players who are match-fit and can be called up in case of injury, but to give alternatives should

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

James Anderson does cricket proud

James Anderson's appearance in the new issue of the gay magazine Attitude has confirmed his status as one of our most admirable sportsmen: clever, charming and – above all – courageous, writes Simon Briggs in the Telegraph .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Theatre of the absurd

The Champions League Twenty20 is a tournament searching for an identity

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

The time may come to remove Pakistan

There may come a point sometime soon when temporarily removing Pakistan from world cricket may be the only way to preserve the game's dignity

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

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