The Surfer

There are reasons to smile for West Indies cricket after one of the more rewarding home seasons in recent times, despite the threat of a players' strike, writes Tony Becca in the Jamaica Gleaner

What's with MS Dhoni

The selectors are a group of people who are generally the least appreciated

Descendants of a hero in Nelson's navy, who established one of cricket's most unlikely outposts on the island of Vis, are returning to the remote Adriatic island to take part in an historic cricket match

The IPL will be a good opportunity for England cricketers, Kevin Pietersen in particular, to improve their Twenty20 skills ahead of the World Twenty20 in June, writes Steve James in the Telegraph .

Anachronistic, perhaps, but personalities like Henry Blofeld will be missed in this clinical new era of sports reporting, writes Scott Murray in the Guardian .

The world's attitude to women's sport is changing, but the process is, like a glacier, slow and inexorable rather than, like a flash flood, altering everything in an instant of time, writes Simon Barnes in the Times .

In the Indian Express , Harsha Bhogle is largely satisfied with India's 1-0 series win over New Zealand but wonders why MS Dhoni was uncharacteristically conservative in timing the declaration in the final Test

The decision to exclude Strauss from England's World Twenty20 squad, perhaps to keep him fresh for the Ashes, subconsciously says that England don't think they have a realistic chance of winning the World Twenty20, writes Simon Wilde in the Times

In the Kolkata-based Telegraph , Ashok Mitra calls for more transparency in the financial transactions of the IPL, which he argues must be registered as a corporate entity

The Guardian's Andy Bull finds that this year's Wisden Almanack makes for compelling reading, and applauds it for its "refreshingly open-minded and enthusiastic" tone

An ongoing debate among former international cricketers and connoisseurs of the game in Mumbai is about the difference in Sunil Gavaskar's and Sachin Tendulkar's style of play

The single most remarkable feature of India's series win is that this was a series with no transformative moment, no miracle rescue, no return from the edge of the abyss

The re-building process the South African one-day side are undergoing has one major bolt loose at the top of the batting, but how to tighten it is proving to be a test of patience for the coaching staff and selectors.

Though Michael Vaughan's recent record does not merit him a place in the England team, Australia would rather see a struggling Ian Bell or Owais Shah at No.3 instead of him in the upcoming Ashes, writes Lawrence Booth in his blog in the Guardian .