The Surfer

For 21 years, Courtney Walsh ran the equivalent of 1000 miles in first-class cricket destroying metacarpals and careers with his pace and guile

The lack of a real allrounder exposes the shallowness of Andrew Strauss's side's batting, writes Duncan Fletcher in the Guardian .

Centrally-contracted players or free-agents

While batsmanship has evolved, and bowlers have begun to assert themselves in the IPL, the fielder continues to use old techniques to meet new challenges, writes Suresh Menon on ESPNStar .

Will Andy Flower make a difference

In India Today , Sharda Ugra analyses the team uniforms and wonders why the player names seem to get lost under the massive numbers and sponsor names

In the Trinidad Guardian , Alvin Corneal looks ahead to what the next three months holds in store for West Indies cricket.

As England move into a brand new era, with a brand new coach who isn’t even called a coach — no, Andy Flower is England’s team director, whatever that means — we pass into this bracing new climate by discarding a few old faithfuls, especially Stephen

Times are tough and Pakistan cricket needs a 'wartime consiglieri', who can help it come out of the current crisis, writes Khalid Hussain in the News on Sunday .

Jacob Oram has always impressed me as a young man of maturity and integrity and nobody can doubt his honesty here

How safe is Andrew Flintoff's place under England's new regime

Nobbling the opposition’s best batsmen with cunning plans was one of several qualities England supporters took for granted when Duncan Fletcher was the national coach, writes Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph .

To turn again in Twenty20 cricket to Collingwood, a player who resigned from the one-day captaincy last summer on the same day as Michael Vaughan, smacks of a conservative choice in a game which demands liberation, and will not inspire confidence

One of the greatest, and indeed finest, variables in cricket, only matched to some extent by tennis and golf, is the nature of the surface the game is played on and here in South Africa, it has turned existing ideas on T20 cricket completely

This is a time when we, in the media, need to pose some serious questions — both to the game’s administrators and, as an extension, to ourselves for leaving no stone unturned in hyping the IPL as a coming of age of world cricket when, in fact, it is

The clock is ticking on when Australia’s Ashes squad will be named and the selectors currently have lots to look at all over the world

After England announced a squad filled with surprises, Simon Wilde writes in the Times that new boss Andy Flower is trying too hard to make a statement

In a hard-hitting editorial, the Indian Express criticises the IPL for the "sheer hyperbolic wall-to-wall gushing" from its approved commentators, the "endless corporate tie-ins" and the "extraordinary, Beijing-like attempts to control media