The Surfer

Matt Prior speaks to Brian Viner in the Independent on various topics - the move from South Africa to England, his mother's illness, the Stanford 20/20 for 20, the number of South-African born players in the England team, the jellybean incident

Matt Prior: 'I wasn't sledging Tendulkar'

In his new autobiography True Colours , Adam Gilchrist, publicly acknowledges the damage caused on the 2005 Ashes tour by a rift between the players' wives and girlfriends

Trouble and strife on tour

Malcolm Conn in the Australian looks at what Cricket Australia could do to encourage more participation from a wider group of cultural groups, including indigenous Australians

Where are the indigenous players?

Simon Barnes writing in The Times makes clear that he has no time for Allen Stanford and his multi-million dollar jamboree in Antigua, voicing the opinion that "sport has become the new pornography".

Money shot cheapens the appeal of cricket

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

The back-to-back triple centurion

Cheteshwar Pujara made headlines by scoring back-to-back triple-centuries - 386 and 306 - in the CK Nayadu Under-22 tournament

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are made for each other as openers and they complement each other well, writes Vijay Lokapally in the Hindu .

A delightful and formidable opening pair

Economies across the globe are not the only things going up in smoke; the stench of burning is coming from the world of cricket too, writes Bobilli Vijay Kumar in the Times of India .

Global warning: A meltdown in cricket too?

England take on Middlesex in their first match of the Stanford Super Series on Sunday but the English dailies have mixed feelings about by the show in Antigua

Stanford in bad taste or in spirit of cricket?

Good structures don't always produce great teams

India is the real deal and Mohali was no fluke, says Darren Berry in the Sunday Age .

Super talent waiting in the wings

He is 192 centimetres and growing, accurate, menacing, creative and captivating, and he didn't shy away from chewing Glenn McGrath's during the inaugural IPL this year

The new tall order

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Tait tells of his troubles

Shaun Tait is back playing for South Australia after a self-imposed seven-month absence from all forms of the game

South Africa losing assets?

Duncan Fletcher, the former England coach, isn't a big fan of the winner-takes-all US$20 million Stanford shootout

Too many questions for comfort

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Mishra's journey to the Indian side

Before his call-up to the Indian side, legspinner Amit Mishra, who took seven wickets on Test debut, faced a lot of disappointments and nearly gave up the game

In the Age , Greg Baum offers a bleak assessment of cricket's future

A game divided

Bouncer-sized blokes wearing stolen headgear?

The boot is on the other foot

Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman to get to 10,000 runs and Sachin Tendulkar was the first to get to 12,000

Two little masters