The Surfer

Poor decision-making exposes Clarke

In the Independent , Mark Nicholas feels the call for Giles Clarke’s head is fair enough after the Stanford saga

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Result irrelevant for fire victims

In the Sydney Morning Herald , Jamie Pandaram reports on the Big Bash Victorian bushfire appeal match at the SCG.

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

ECB's imperial attitude has left English cricket in the cold

The Observer's chief sports writer, Kevin Mitchell, believes that the fear of a power shift towards India led the ECB to embrace Sir Allen Stanford

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Heir apparent and taking cricket forward

In 2008, Sri Lankan cricket was running backwards as if it was in a mighty hurry to fall over the cliff and then once a ‘may-be’ life line was thrown it has begun to float on like a rudderless ship, says SR Pathiravithana in Sri Lanka's Sunday

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Interest waning in waving the Aussie flag

There will be fewer Australians in the crowds in South Africa during the Test series, writes Peter Lalor in the Sunday Telegraph .

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Broad shoulders burden of being the rising son in England's attack

Growing up with a cricketing family equipped Stuart Broad with a fierce appetite to succeed, surmises Vic Marks, and Andrew Flintoff's injury has given the Nottinghamshire bowler a chance to stake a claim as a frontline bowler

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

It's just like playing your boss at golf

It could very well be the groundsmen who feel the most pressure going into the marquee tour of the summer

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Prince omission a sign of South Africa's progress

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Aravinda better than Tendulkar?

If Sunil Gavaskar was a better batsman than Viv Richards because he mastered the fearsome West Indies bowlers who Richards never had to face, then by that logic Aravinda de Silva was better than Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, writes Nirgunan

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Clarke should go if judged by his own standards of accountability

The severing of all ties between the ECB and Sir Allen Stanford has not stopped the landslide of criticism threatening to swallow up chairman Giles Clarke

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Antigua's epic finale a true test of cricket's real worth

During the Antigua Test, as the locals "were drawn to the rickety stadium like pilgrims", James Lawton says that the management was told to turn off the music and increase the volume of the television commentary.Writing in the Independent , Lawton

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Better days lie ahead

With Stanford's fall and the appointment of David Collart as Zimbabwe's new sports minister, cricket may now legitimately hope that better days lie ahead, writes Peter Roebuck in the Hindu .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Eight months later ...

This weeks’ cricket coverage has been dominated by stories about Sir Alan Stanford, often accompanied by pictures of his big day out at Lord’s last June when he and his new best friends at the ECB and WICB unveiled their brave new world

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Life without Richie is unthinkable

Richie Benaud has confirmed he will step down as a commentator in 2010 and Gideon Haigh writes in the Australian that the idea of cricket without him seems unthinkable.

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Last man standing

Peter Lalor, writing in the Australian , looks at the offspinner Nathan Hauritz, the Steven Bradbury of Australian cricket.

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

It's not too late for the CCI

There's still perhaps time for the Cricket Club of India (CCI) to negotiate a fair deal with IPL that will be in the best interests of their world-renowned club and the game of cricket, as well as Mumbai's cricket fanatics for whom there is no

25-Feb-2013•Judhajit

Allen Stanford debacle confirms sport is a whore

As the whole Sir Allen Stanford business goes up in smoke and he becomes the latest billionaire lurking behind an impenetrable thicket of alleged lies, let's not blame poor alleged Sir A for being a monumental power-drunk, publicity-crazed vulgarian

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Fragile Flintoff can only watch as firebrand Broad steps into his role

Although clearly in pain from his injured right hip, Andrew Flintoff bowled on a tense final day in Antigua, sending down two spells before leaving the field wicketless

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

The time has come

The relative low success rate of teams travelling to New Zealand may have much to do with looking upon the assignment as just another tour

25-Feb-2013•Judhajit

Key must stop tour of Zimbabwe

An editorial in the New Zealand Herald says that the country's government should not allow the tour of Zimbabwe to go ahead.

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

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