The Surfer

PCB's shaming of Shoaib

The Pakistan board unnecessarily revealed the nature of Shoaib Akhtar's injury that forced him out of the World Twenty20 but given long‑standing acrimony that exists between Shoaib and the PCB, one imagines the only real dilemma the blazers faced

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Suit up

Before the Ashes can begin, there is the major task of getting the England squad kitted and fitted in the Hugo Boss suits

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Twenty20 ‘nonsense’ raises Test profile

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

India have the right mix

Defending champions India seem to be favourites for the World Twenty20 in England and Harsha Bhogle feels though the tag can be a poisoned chalice, India do seem to possess the right kind of players

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Older, wiser but will Ponting be stronger?

Ricky Ponting faces some stiff challenges as he tours England four years after losing the Ashes

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Clark signing shows county self-interest

Mike Selvey in the Guardian discusses why Gloucestershire’s signing of Stuart Clark in the lead-up to the Ashes is more selfish than Middlesex’s recruitment of Phillip Hughes.

25-Feb-2013•Brydon Coverdale

Consistency matters more than theories

Makarand Waingankar, writing in the Hindu , discusses some of the reasons why big names like Kevin Pietersen, Sachin Tendulkar and Brendon McCullum faltered as captains in the IPL.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

No Allen Stanford in ECB's annual report

Simon Wilde, writing in the Times , says it is mysterious that the US businessman fails to get a mention in English cricket's yearly review.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

What's wrong with West Indies?

In the Times , Mike Atherton looks at the problems with West Indies cricket and comes up with myriad issues, including the poor attitude of the captain Chris Gayle.

25-Feb-2013•Brydon Coverdale

Why the P20 may be about as welcome as a P45

As the ECB tries to shake up the sagging sales of Twenty20 tickets in the country, the next year's P20 remains as ill thought-out as a reverse-sweep off Joel Garner, writes Lawrence Booth in his column Spin , for the Guardian

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Matt Prior chipping away at mentor Stewart

The story of England's one-day wicketkeepers boils down largely to one man

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Show me the money

The IPL has failed to draw a line between the entertainment provided by the cricket and the entertainment from the singing, dancing, drumming and DJ-ing

25-Feb-2013•Judhajit

England happily getting to know Graham Onions

Graham Onions is well placed in the shake-up to be Andy Flower's fourth seamer for this summer's Ashes series, writes Donald McRae in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

IPL's dream team

Hayden, Gilchrist, Raina, de Villiers, Dilshan, Duminy, Kumble, Ojha, RP Singh, Nehra and Malinga

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Twenty20 deluge gets under way

Today marks the beginning of the Twenty20 boom in England, starting with the domestic Twenty20 Cup and then the World Twenty20 in June

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

New Zealand upbeat ahead of World Twenty20

New Zealand's players may not exactly have been on top form during the IPL, but Dylan Cleaver thinks there's cause for optimism ahead of the World Twenty20 next month

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Bitter for Kumble, sweet for Gilchrist

Anil Kumble's forlorn walk back to the pavilion was in contrast to the scenes after bowling his counterpart Adam Gilchrist in the first over of the game

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Lewis a sporting underacheiver

In the Sunday Telegraph , Andrew Alderson charts the downfall of former England allrounder Chris Lewis, who was recently sentenced to 13 years in prison after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into the country

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Strauss set to keep captaincy for two years?

Scyld Berry writes in the Sunday Telegraph that Andrew Strauss should either have two more years of being England's ODI captain, or just the two games of the series against West Indies

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Grown-up Clarke likely to be a handful

Michael Clarke may have had a forgettable Ashes when he came to England in 2005, but this time he will be a far more formidable opponent for the home side's bowlers, writes Steve James in the Sunday Telegraph

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

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