The Surfer

Former England coach Duncan Fletcher believes the win over West Indies at Lords offers the right perspective to look at areas that England can improve

Tony Lewis, one half of the Duckworth-Lewis team who've come up with the D/L method, says the system itself isn't so difficult to understand, but few are interested to know more about it.

In his column for Sri Lanka's Sunday Times , SR Pathiravithana offers a few of the pros and cons that modern Sri Lankan feeder points face

The Dawn 's Humair Ishtiaq looks at Pakistan's series against Australia in the UAE and says the lack of fight was surprising

Twenty20 is still an infant, yet there's enough evidence to say that in this format, only uncertainty is a constant says Rohit Mahajan in this week's Outlook magazine

Australia are still finding their way in the Twenty20 format and Kerry O’Keeffe, the former Test spinner, points out a few areas to improve during an interview with the Sunday Herald Sun

Graeme Swann's impressive performance in the first Test against West Indies has got the Daily Telegraph's Steve James thinking the offspinner may give Australia a bit of trouble

Paul Hayward in his Observer blog fears that Test Match Special could be threatened by Radio 5

A wicketkeeper with exceptional batting skills is a super allrounder who saves a place in the XI and Adam Gilchrist is the foremost example, writes S Dinakar in the weekly magazine Sportstar

The first day at Lord’s witnessed the arrival of a special talent; now it was the turn of the journeymen, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

In her blog Free Hit for India Today , Sharda Ugra lists out five things to like about the IPL, ranging from Shane Warne's curious tactics to 'Buddy Talk'

The IPL has seen an excess of everything and it's no wonder that many South Africans haven't taken to it

The Western Terrace at Headingley was far from the Viking-helmeted, gorilla-suited, false-breasted transvestite Bacchanal it is today, writes Harry Pearson in the Guardian .

Andrew Stevenson, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , says Ricky Ponting remains something of a boy in short pants at Twenty20 cricket

Ravi Bopara's century in the opening day at Lord's overcame the shortcomings of those who competed for the No.3 spot with him, writes Vic Marks in the Guardian

Expensive investments don't always turn out right in cricket, as the IPL has demonstrated