The Surfer

England batsman Claire Taylor has been picked for the International Registered Testing Pool to be monitored for drug use

Drug testing for women

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Many hits, very few misses

In the Times of India , Bobilli Vijay Kumar writes that the flexibility within India's batting line-up is a major reason for their success.

Peter Roebuck, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , likes what he sees in South Africa’s line-up for the third Test against Australia in Cape Town

Rainbow nation shines after revolution

England could not even bat out their 20 overs, so overwhelmed were they by the atmosphere and their own ineptitude

England fail to enter Twenty20 party spirit

WV Raman writes in his column for Sportstar that the decline in the quality of pitches can contribute to the decline of cricket

Featherbeds are futile

Ricky Ponting has plenty of reasons to set his sights high in defence of the Ashes, believes the Sunday Times' Simon Wilde

Australia rising for the Ashes

Former Indian captain Bishan Bedi is typically blunt in his criticism of the IPL, and the BCCI's insistence on holding the Twenty20 event at the same time as the general elections in India

Bedi slams IPL as 'cricket's nadir'

SR Pathiravithana, in his column for the Sunday Times , says that Kumar Sangakkara, the heir apparent to Mahela Jayawardene, has finally has got his chance to prove his credentials

Two new skippers at the same time, but leadership qualities....

England are now ranked sixth in the ICC's Test table and any expectations of a repeat of the drama of the 2005 Ashes series are receding fast

To blossom under Flower, England need to win

It’s Phillip, not Phil, says Hughes

Its off with the pyjamas and on with the flannels, says Mark Richardson in the New Zealand Herald

Time to get on with the serious matches of summer

By unwisely scheduling the IPL during India's general elections, the tournament organisers have placed the government and its security bureaucracy in a cruel dilemma, writes B Raman in the Outlook magazine.

Dilemma over IPL scheduling

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Ponting links Australian revival with economic plan

After taking Australia to a series win over South Africa, Ricky Ponting has some advice for the country’s business leaders in his column in the Australian

Andrew Strauss made three centuries in the Test series to answer doubts over whether captaincy would await his batting form

One-day challenge awaits Strauss

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Australia's secret Ashes selection strategy

Read Mike Ticher's satirical take on the thinking behind Australia's squad selection in the Guardian .

A chilling phone conversation with an Irish terrorist four decades ago convinced Ted Corbett that sportsmen will never be the target of terror attacks because the people the terrorists want to impress love their sports stars

A message that no longer rings true

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Without fear, Viru’s come into his own

There is a secret to Virender Sehwag's fearlessness, a trait that resides in all those who are happy to live with risk; or indeed risk as most of us perceive it

Lalit Modi may be about to face his biggest challenge in the IPL yet and it may come from the source he would least expect, the players

Ego, pride or bomb?

Ben Laughlin thought he was in trouble when ordered for a chat with Trevor Barsby, the Queensland coach, on Thursday

Don’t worry, Ben, you’re off to South Africa