The Surfer

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Siddle will bounce back from fast bowler’s curse

2011 World Cup not beyond New Zealand

After observing New Zealand's strong showings in one-dayers in the past six months, including the run to the ICC Champions Trophy final and the series victory over Pakistan in the UAE, Mark Richardson makes the bold claim in the Herald on Sunday

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Mickey cools his heels

Having just quit as South Africa coach, Mickey Arthur has vowed to get up at 5.30 am and watch every ball when his country takes on India in Nagpur

New Zealand Cricket seems confused

Confusion in New Zealand

The ICC's format for the world youth tournament needs to be changed, particularly with the knockout phase where one bad match is enough to undo all the hard work in getting there, writes Geoff Longley in the Press

New format needed for U-19 tournament

Venkatapathy Raju, part of India's spin trio in the early 1990s, reminisces his early days when he shared Irani chai and samosas with friends, caught two buses everyday to get from Ramanthapur to Gymkhana, his school days and watching the Mithun

Remember Muscles?

Cricket remains the most controversial of games

Cricket needs to stop thinking defensively

The resulting uproar over Shahid Afridi's snack has reignited the debate about ball tampering, and in the New Zealand Herald Adam Parore says Pakistan got away with it for 15 or 20 years because no one really knew what was going on

Afridi offers food for thought

England must improve their decision making and the best way they could do that is by playing, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian

Laptop-designed plans no match for on-field education

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Pollard’s rags to riches tale

Tendulkar tops Indian sports power list

The Indian edition of Sports Illustrated has compiled a list of the 50 most influential people in Indian sport

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Captaincy: No comparison between cricket and football

Michael Atherton, writing in the Times , says captaincy is a far more serious business in cricket than it is in England's most popular sport

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

The Permanently Confused Board

Writing in Dawn , Shoaib Alvi vents his frustrations with the PCB (read: Permanently Confused Board)

Sport24's chief writer Rob Houwing interviewed Craig Matthews, who played 18 Tests and 56 ODIs for South Africa and was recently relieved of his position as a national selector in a clear-out of the whole panel

'Not only selectors can advance black players'

In the New Zealand Herald , David Leggat writes of the difficulty Australia and New Zealand are experiencing in naming a candidate to act as Sharad Pawar's deputy in the ICC once he takes over as president, and eventually succeed him

A trans-tasman rivalry for the ICC post

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

England should not hurry Gibson replacement

Bob Willis is of the opinion that England should be in no hurry to find a replacement for former bowling coach Ottis Gibson who has resigned to join the West Indies team

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

HRV Cup success bleak in the future

One of the key successes of the inaugural HRV Cup in New Zealand was the presence throughout of the country's best players

From the pointed end of terrorism to the relatively mundane possibility of lost baggage, the IPL has every eventuality covered

The Insured Premier League

When a repeat offender is allowed to get away with a rap on the wrists as Shahid Afridi has been for his 'ball biting' incident, the ICC itself brings the game into disrepute, says Suresh menon in his column on Dreamcricket.com .

Lowering the boom on Afridi