The Surfer

As West Indies begin their latest tour of New Zealand today, Tony Robson's memory drifts back to heady days when the Caribbean's cricketers ruled the planet.Since their acrimonious tour of New Zealand in 1979-80, West Indies have held a fascination

Twenty-three former Australia players have called on the Australian Cricketers' Association's hardship fund over the past ten years

That New Zealand have lost an enormous amount of experience over a short period of time is obvious after their latest Test series against Australia

Michael Klinger was a useful player for Victoria but has turned into an excellent one since his off-season switch to South Australia

Trevor Bailey is 85, without a driving license, but with a firm opinion that England should be captained by an Englishman

Centuries by Mark Boucher and Brad Haddin in their last Test innings, against Bangladesh and New Zealand respectively, have set up the Australia-South Africa series perfectly as far as the glovemen go

Robert Craddock, writing in the Daily Telegraph , comes up with a left-field solution for lifting the over-rates, which have become a severe problem for Australia.

England could decide to tour India for the Tests but Mike Atherton feels the series, under the current circumstances, will be a joyless one

Writing in The Guardian , Andy Bull believes England should go back to India, and cites the example of the New York Mets baseball team, who resumed playing only weeks after the September 11 attacks, and embarked on a winning run that earned them

Neil Manthorp, in Supercricket , fumes at Cricket Australia's unfair accreditation terms on news agencies covering international games and questions the wisdom of the decision

Paul Holden in his blog Sideline Slogger sums up the second Test between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide and is very relieved it wasn't a three-match series.

Not just the annual day out with the family when she was young, the Taj Mahal Hotel also provided the setting for Sharda Ugra's grand plan to interview Imran Khan

A baggy green worn by Don Bradman on the 1948 Ashes tour has an estimated auction price of between A$600,000 to $750,000, Peter Hanlon reports in the Age .

Greg Baum says in the Age international cricket must resume in India as soon as is decently and sensibly possible.

Pause a moment before calling India's ODI series win against England a triumph for the opposition was a rag-tag bunch with only one class one-day batsman in Kevin Pietersen, writes V Gangadhar in the Outlook magazine.