The Surfer

The Australian cricket team has an image problem, writes David Sygall in the Sun-Herald .

Why aren’t the Australians loved?

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Franchises will be the face of sport's future

In the New Zealand Herald , Adam Parore writes that private Twenty20 franchises will become the bedrock of cricket, a la professional clubs in football, and this is where the bulk of the game will exist

The more close contests one sees spread over five days, the more one gets convinced that cricket was not meant to be a game of limited overs, writes Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times

Good wickets make for keen contests

Collingwood's case shows why South Africa are better

India's new-ball pair revels in its strengths

Mike Coward, writing in the Australian , looks at the rise of Hot Spot, an aptly-named resource which is taking the heat out of cricket's hottest debate.

Hot Spot fires up

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Pietersen incapable of halting his downward slide

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Smarten up those saggy greens

Going once, going twice...

Dileep Premachandran has one eye on the upcoming IPL auction

England might be very pleased with themselves, up 1-0 in the Test series in South Africa, but it is reasonable to question whether the selectors have been vindicated, says Duncan Fletcher in the Guardian .

Do the England selectors deserve a pat?

Delhi's overpriced, badly-designed Feroz Shah Kotla is a showpiece indicative of the wrong direction India is taking, writes Mike Marqusee in the Guardian

Capital losses for India

England coach Andy Flower will be closing in on a year in the job, from the time he took temporary charge during their tour of West Indies

Futures tense for England's main men

Former India captain and umpire, S Venkataraghavan talks about cricket in Chennai from the yesteryears

Southern comfort

Just 13 months into Test cricket, England's star spinner Graeme Swann has risen to No.5 in the Test rankings, a fact which is yet to sink in, by his own admittance

Swann 'embarassed' by his own rise

In the Guardian , Paul Weaver looks back to England's 1990 rebel tour to South Africa, which was the most fractious of them all because of the changing political climate in the country

The apartheid tour that turned sour

Lalit Modi's rejection of alleged match-fixers from the IPL auction will not by itself deter bookies or money-lusting players

Bookies may turn radar on IPL

England still have much to do

Virender Sehwag seems to be the man of the season

For Sehwag, 100 is never enough

Watching Karnataka's Abhimanyu Mithun and Vinay Kumar skittle Mumbai on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy final in Mysore brought back memories of the raw duo of Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad the last time they won the tournament in 1988-89

The excitement in Mysore