The Surfer

Indian Premier League teams are still topping up their player rosters and that is good news for Australian state players like Shane Harwood, according to Chloe Saltau in the Age .

Though he thinks the series ended with a fair result, Jacques Kallis is keen not to play in Kanpur for a third time

While the focus of attention will be on India and the launch of the IPL, back in England the County Championship begins on Wednesday

West Indies clinched the series against Sri Lanka after they won the second ODI in Trinidad

As New Zealand search desperately for international-standard players, the omission of Chris Martin from the one-day squad to tour England is odd, writes Dylan Cleaver in the Herald on Sunday .

The Indian Premier League, which launches in less than a week, has brought forth a host of responses from respected voices in the game

Brad Haddin doesn’t normally wait by the phone to find out if he’s been selected for the national squad, but this time around he just couldn’t help himself

Paddy Upton, India’s mental-conditioning coach, writes for Moneyweb.co.za website to explain how he and Gary Kirsten adapt to supporting India when they are both South African.

New York has become the first school district in the US to introduce cricket as a sport in public high schools

The famous Wisden Almanack still has its place, says Mike Selvey in the Guardian , and is about more than handing out a few prizes every year

“Greed and arrogance” is the damning headline in an editorial for The Hindu which predicts a media boycott of the IPL whose administrators are making “over-the-top” demands.

Proof that some people have too much time on their hands

This week extracts from the new Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, published today, are running in The Times

After the featherbed in Chennai and the lively pitch in Ahmedabad, on which India were shot out for 76 in the first session, the Kanpur wicket will undoubtedly be under scrutiny ahead of the third Test between India and South Africa

Patrick Kidd chats with John Emburey, one of the ICL coaches, about "the ICL World Series...a triangular tournament between the pick of the players from the eight ICL franchises".

In the Sydney Morning Herald Jamie Pandaram finds out more about Australia's newest fast bowler, Doug Bollinger.

Prem Panicker, writing in the Rediff blog , questions the motives behind the controversial IPL accreditation process.

Andrew Strauss writes about the legacy of his former coach Duncan Fletcher in the Wisden Almanack

Writing in the Wisden Almanack , an extract of which is in the Times , Mike Atherton pays tribute to the cavalier genius of Brian Lara.