The Surfer

South Africa's mental block

South Africa committed some glaring, the most basic mistakes on the fourth day in Durban, and their display of non-resistance, especially after tea, revealed a serious mental block, says Simon Briggs in the Daily Telegraph .

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Pitch problem must be settled at the top

Kunal Pradhan, writing in the Indian Express , places the blame for India's problem with poor pitches on those on the upper end of the hierarchy

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Pitch fiasco a direct slap in spectator's face

Batsmen have got so used to having everything in their favour – the tracks were such featherbeds throughout this series – that they probably felt cheated at the Kotla

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Cook does not need captaincy burden

Nasser Hussain, in his daily dossier in the Daily Mail , lauds Alastair Cook for his century in Durban, attributing the knock to his mental strength, but adds that players and experts alike must not burden him with the talk of captaincy.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

No need to cheerlead Windies effort

Orwin Davidson, writing in Stabroek News , argues for caution in the confidence and optimism generated by West Indies' impressive performance in Australia

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Shocking negligence at the Kotla

In his syndicated column, Anil Kumble writes that the Kotla pitch fiasco could have been avoided if a couple of Ranji games had been played on the same re-laid surface

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Bond's absence will hurt New Zealand

The New Zealand-Australia series scheduled for February and March next year appeared to have in the ingredients for a riveting contest until Shane Bond and Iain O'Brien announced their retirements, writes Chris Rattue in the New Zealand Herald .

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Rewind to 1956-57

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, in the Times , looks back on England's tour of South Africa in 1956-57 and compares it with the one underway

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Swann on song

Graeme Swann is very much likely to end 2009 as the second-highest wicket-taker

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

The leftist party

The Indian domestic scene is suddenly filled with left-arm spinners, quite a change from a couple of years ago when they were thought to be a dying species

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Bell must trust his instincts

David Gower, writing in the Sunday Times , says Ian Bell has to score well in Durban to get pressure off his back amid questions over his place in the side

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Australia’s batting curse

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

A shot at redemption for Australia

The Australian cricket team’s repeated run-ins with opponents on the field have lead Mike Coward to believe that though the side is keen to dish out verbal aggression with interest, they are incapable of handling stick from opponents

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

No runaway best in Test cricket

Shane Warne, writing in the Times , says there is little to choose between what he reckons are the top four teams at the Test level, and gone are the days when there was one team, like the West Indies in the eighties and Australia for much of the

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Kohli must not get carried away

Virat Kohli’s maiden century in Kolkata has raised visions that he could be the next big thing in Indian cricket

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

A tough call at the toss

Mike Atherton, writing in the Times , says Andrew Strauss could be confronted with a tricky choice at the toss for the second Test in Durban

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

England's mixed decade

Simon Hughes, writing in the Daily Telegraph , recaps England's performance in the noughties, the highs and the lows, and concludes that the lack of quality players in the line-up as well as the domestic circuit would ensure that the team will

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

What keeps Tendulkar going?

Dileep Premachandran, in his blog in the Guardian , says Sachin Tendulkar's attitude and passion for the game motivates him to give it his best in each match, irrespective of where it is being played or who he's playing against.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Reviews changing the name of the game

Kevin Mitchell believes that the advent of the UDRS has irrevocably marred the on-field bonhomie between players and umpires, in the process taking away an integral aspect of the game

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

Ponting's painful week

In his column in the Australian , Ricky Ponting writes that he's had better weeks than the current one.

25-Feb-2013•Brydon Coverdale

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