The Surfer

In the Guardian , Mike Selvey delivers a history lesson on the origin of the Ashes.

In the Hindu , Makarand Waingankar writes that a delightful outcome of effective strategy management in the T20 format is the emergence and handling of spinners

Kolkata Knight Riders had a tumultous IPL in South Africa - the entire team needed dialogue and, more importantly, shared understanding and focus

There are differing opinions over whether Australia's early exit from the ICC World Twenty20 will help or hinder their Ashes preparations

Kiwi blogger Paul Holden is relishing the early exit of the Australians from the World Twenty20

Giles Smith is amazed at the speed with which a team's fortunes fluctuate in the World Twenty20, and at fans' "notoriously twitchy attention spans"

With England's big guns Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen are recovering from injuries

Pakistan's game against Netherlands could just be the most important match for the nation since the 1992 World Cup final, writes Imran Yusuf in the Dawn

In only one respect was England's victory over Pakistan fortunate and that was that England came up against the one team who had looked even rustier than themselves in the warm-up games, writes Mike Atherton in the Times

The other MCC – the Melbourne Cricket Club – is facing some of the same accusations the Marylebone Cricket Club has had to deal with during its long history

The latest Andrew Symonds controversy is starting to fade but Robert Craddock, writing in the Courier-Mail , says the scars will linger for many years.

In taking the World Cup away from Pakistan, the ICC suggests that terrorism is limited to Pakistan, which is untrue because incidents show that risks are prevalent to varying degrees in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh

In the Observer , Will Buckley goes behind the scenes at the MCC at Lord's on the opening day of the World Twenty20.

The ICL has lost a huge number of players after the BCCI announced it's decision to award amnesty to those who has signed up with the league

The ICC will meet to discuss the Future Tours Programme next week and serious noises are being made that the top four want to play each other more often, which means the rest could be sidelined in the new programme, writes Dylan Cleaver in the

Partab Ramchand, in the Indian Express , profiles the late MJ Gopalan , one of India's few double internationals, on his hundredth birth anniversary

Siddhartha Mishra, in his article in the Indian Express , tries to examine some of the reasons why Zimbabwe, who lit up the previous World Twenty20 with a shock win over Australia, find themselves in oblivion two years hence.

Tony Cozier, writing in the Stabroek News , while acknowledging that Twenty20 cricket remains the game of the present, says Test cricket's continued survival despite competition from different versions of the sport is an achievement in itself.