The Surfer

UAE have qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1996, but if they are to put in a more memorable performance this time, their players need adequate time to prepare before 2015

It's 25 years this week since Sportsweek, the popular sports magazine in India, shut down

Karnataka have gone into the Ranji Trophy final with a remarkable form, that too with a number of youngsters in the side. Many of them attribute their success to their batting coach J Arunkumar

Chris Rattue, writing for the New Zealand Herald, believes that it makes no sense dropping Jesse Ryder from the squad for the forthcoming home Tests against India

Mark Geenty, writing for Fairfax NZ News, finds out from Mitchell McClenaghan about his very specific diet that has played a large part in him becoming the team's wicket-taking machine of late

A spice trader, a cafe boy, a bullet maker and a former footballer. Chinmay Brahme, writing for the Indian Express, details the rise of Anupam Sanklecha, Samad Fallah, Dominic Muthuswamy and Sangram Atitkar through the ranks to the top of the domestic cri

Jon Hotten, writing in his blog the Old Batsman, believes that it's no surprise that the ECB and Cricket Australia have succumbed to the demands of the BCCI

In the Age, Greg Baum describes a bleak future for international cricket and traces it back to the imposition of the draft proposal put forth by the BCCI, ECB and CA

On the 150th anniversary of first-class cricket in New Zealand, the Otago Daily Times' Gavin Bertram looks back on the Otago v Canterbury match in Dunedin that started it all

Mumbai sacked their coach after their loss in the Ranj Trophy quarter-final this year, but Sanjay Manjrekar, writing in the Mid-day, says the problem could be elsewhere

A comprehensive structural overhaul, dividing Tests into a two-tier system, granting even more power and control to the BCCI (as well as the ECB and Cricket Australia)... The ICC's latest plans for the greater good of the game have raised more eyebrows th

Gideon Haigh, writing for the Australian, believes that the ICC's plan for a comprehensive structural overhaul and to cede most executive decision-making to the BCCI, ECB and Cricket Australia, will ultimately do more harm than good

Misbah-ul-Haq, in an exclusive interview with Nadeem F Paracha for the Dawn, opens up about his record as captain, his relationship with his team-mates, playing away from home, the past controversies which have rocked the team, and constantly being in the

After India boasted of a powerful batting line-up 2000s, questions were raised about who would replace the batsmen the team relied on

Open Culture gives us a couple of vintage photos of a young Virginia Woolf playing cricket with her siblings, including her painter sister, Vanessa Bell