The Surfer

Rush to accomodate Indians suggests the Allen Stanford experience has not had any effect on English cricket's thinking, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

Lessons ignored in the rush for IPL cash

With five of the six matches decided on the last day, 14 centuries scored, five five-fors taken by the bowlers, and a great well of memories created by the two teams, the back-to-back Test series between Australia and South Africa made for two of

Greatest Test series' of the modern era

The recent gifting away of the first one-day international to England by the management of the West Indies cricket team once again raises the question of the administration of the game in the Caribbean, says an editorial in the Trinidad and Tobago

Seeking options for WI cricket

We begin this week with a spot of nostalgia

Regimented England unsuited to one-day cricket

Think of the IPL as a maker of biscuits (or fruitcakes, if you like) and the Season 2 migration as merely a means of staying in business, writes Sharda Ugra in India Today .

Cricket's biscuit factory

We spent last night celebrating our victory

World champions. And we'll never forget it.

Andy Burnham, writing in the Independent after England Women won the World Cup final against New Zealand Women, tries to explain the reasons behind the lack of publicity for the women's game in England.

Women's sport treated as a slideshow

India’s first Test win in New Zealand in 33 years was momentous on many levels not least of which the fact that the side started a series abroad assuredly, writes S

NZ tour has played out nicely for India

An editorial comment in the Indian Express criticises the BCCI on its decision to stage this year's IPL outside of India and says the Indian fans' interests were simply kept out of the agenda while making this move.

Cricket hijacked

In England's freakish victory over West Indies in the first ODI, where coach Dyson called his players back after miscalculating the D/L par score, regulation took precedence over common sense once again, writes Vic Marks in the Observer :

There's no holding pattern in India

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Illogical regulations

The IPL may well have become an albatross around the government's neck, but to treat security concerns as trifles is in nobody's interest - neither the nation's nor cricket's

Point taken

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A different buzz

Sachin Tendulkar being 70 not out at the end of day’s play isn’t merely a line on a scoreboard but a situation pregnant with possibilities

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Cricket and that striking non-action at Sabina Park

HG Helps, writing in the Jamaica Observer , describes the scene outside Sabina Park where the striking Combined Campuses and Colleges team stayed in their team bus while their opponents Jamaica didn't even show up.

England women will be looking for their third World Cup win when they take on New Zealand in Sydney on Sunday

Reaching the World Cup final

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Debutant McGain christened the new Mick Lewis

A cunning plan by Dyson

Coach John Dyson's miscalculation of the D/L chart cost West Indies the first one-dayer against England in Guyana but the Times ' Patrick Kidd wonders whether it was not all part of a cunning plan by Dyson.

Philip Derriman remembers in the Sydney Morning Herald what it was like to sit beside Bill 'Tiger' O’Reilly, Australia’s former legspinner and journalist, and hear him analyse what was happening in the middle.

Eye of the 'Tiger' could see it all

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Move McCullum to No. 5

India have the first Test firmly in their grasp and Adam Parore looks at what New Zealand can do in the following matches to avoid a series loss