The Surfer

Paul Weaver in the Guardian takes a look at the 70th anniversary of a historically significant county match.

Verily, we remember Verity

Andrew Flintoff was recently offered an incremental contract by the ECB but could reject it in favour of going freelance

Do not fear Freddie the freelancer

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West Indies cricket falls apart

In the Trinidad & Tobago Express , Peter Simmons argues that West Indian cricket has become an international laughing stock, and that public disappointment and disdain is at its zenith.

Andrew Strauss relives the victorious Ashes series in his autobiography Testing Time

A fire alarm, and some football

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A title-winning performance?

Prem Panicker writes in his blog, Smoke signals , that the Player-of-the-Match award in the final of the Compaq Cup should have gone to the curator of the R Premadasa because the nature of the pitch was so influential in deciding the outcome

The general consensus is the England-Australia series has been a poor advertisement for 50-over cricket

In defence of the one-day international

Former Pakistan batsman Mudassar Nazar talks to Pakpassion.net on his playing days, playing under Imran Khan, his stint as a coach with the ICC and the NCA in Lahore and gives his opinions on the upcoming stars in Pakistan cricket

'Imran always backed his team-mates'

The baseball World Series has the right idea in ending a best-of-seven series when one team wins four matches, writes Patrick Kidd on his Line and Length blog in the Times

Down with dead rubbers

The Daily Telegraph is running extracts from Andrew Strauss's new autobiography Testing time

Strauss on captaincy

As a relatively new club going from strength to strength, down-to-earth Durham are unlikely to slide quickly like other counties in the past

Dangers behind Durham’s dominance

Raj Singh Dungarpur , the former BCCI president, died on Saturday aged 73

Farewell Rajbhai

Jayasuriya ends extended lean spell

The latest in the series of disputes between the West Indies players and the board has tested everyone's patience to the limit and perhaps it's time to show aggression, break up the entire system and have them play as individual islands, writes Peter

Is it time to scrap 'West Indies'?

In the Sunday Island , Madura Nandana writes that since the retirement of the gritty Arjuna Ranatunga, the Sri Lankan middle order hasn't looked as stable

Ranatunga - a hard act to follow

If Australia are to regain their No.2 standing, Ricky Ponting must be given more power to determine who the national coach, selectors and support team will be, writes Dean Jones in the Age

The buck stops with Ponting

The likelihood of the 50-over game being scrapped for good for the sake of Twenty20 and even shorter formats seems inevitable, writes Peter Williams in the New Zealand Herald

Future cricket looks shorter

An editorial in the Jamaica Observer calls for West Indies board president Julian Hunte and his administration to step aside to make room for a complete transformation of the way cricket is run in the region

Hunte must go

The English media have never really warmed to the ongoing seven-ODI series between England and Australia

A never-ending one-day series