The Surfer

In scoring 291, Ramnaresh Sarwan managed to equal Viv Richards' Test best, also made against England

Sarwan equals Viv's best

India women have left for the World Cup in Australia and a win this time - they reached the final in 2005 - could do the women's game as much good as the 1983 win did for the men

A world title for recognition

Over the last couple of series, the dilemma of where Brendon McCullum should be batting in one-day internationals has reared its head once more, writes Mark Richardson in the Herald on Sunday .

McCullum best suited to batting in top order

The poor decisions by third umpire Daryl Harper on lbw appeals referred to him on the third day of the Barbados Test between West Indies and England has reopened the debate on ICC's referral system

What's wrong with the referral system?

India’s batting lost it the Twenty20 Internationals

Difficult to pinpoint what went wrong

Kevin Pietersen is "one weird cat" whose best is yet to come

Warne continues to spin

Time for Ponting’s captaincy to lift

An editorial in the Indian Express takes the case of former New Zealand fast bowler Ewen Chatfield, who now drives a taxi in Wellington, and makes the point that cricket needs more IPLs and ICLs, free of boundaries of nationality and monopoly, as

Fruitful Kiwis

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Bopara - the best British Asian cricketer

Ravi Bopara's maiden Test century has put pressure on Owais Shah's place in the England side, writes David Gower in the Sunday Times .

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has already positively gushed about his team's top order heading into the ODIs against India

McCullum best suited to batting in the top order

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Indian cricket's keeper of memories forgets

Raj Singh Dungarpur, one of the most popular BCCI officials, is ailing

Zaheer Khan has gone from edgy, brittle paceman to the leader of India’s attack, the man who has delivered some of its most emphatic victories in the last two seasons, writes Sharda Ugra in India Today .

Zak the knife

Check out the Brian Viner interview with Andrew Flintoff in the Independent .

'I never get a niggle. It's always a proper injury'

The Indians may have struggled in the Twenty20s against New Zealand but that does not mean all of them will find the tour an uphill task

Tendulkar and Dravid will get runs in NZ

For decades, Kensington Oval was the impregnable fortress of West Indies cricket

Bopara excels in impregnable fortress

Cricket will never supplant soccer as the preferred sport of the South African majority but like never before it has a priceless opportunity to enter the consciousness of the Rainbow Nation

It’s not soccer, but South Africa might like it

Slumdog Slater not always wrong answer

Harsha Bhogle writes in the Indian Express that the first Twenty20 in Christchurch proved that keeping wickets in hand is vital even in the game's shortest format

A wake-up call for India

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Free beer ends in two minutes for Hughes fans