The Surfer

If India take a few gambles in Kanpur to try and square the series, it might mean their playing three spinners and just one full-time seamer to share the new ball with Sourav Ganguly

In the Sunday Telegraph , Steve James writes that should Robert Mugabe be forced from office in Zimbabwe then there will be a bonus for cricket in the country in that it may well signal the demise of ZC chairman Peter Chingoka.

The English season kicks off with MCC playing the champion county, Sussex, at Lord's next week to kickoff the English season

Simon Jones was facing the prospect of early retirement after losing his ECB central contract and being offered a reduced deal by Glamorgan following long-running injury problems since the 2005 Ashes

Seeing India go through their motions on a lively Motera pitch, one got a feeling that Test cricket is on its deathbed, writes Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times .

The Melbourne club Northcote is hoping to attract Tatenda Taibu for next summer, Chloe Saltau reports in the Sunday Age .

Mark Richardson, writing in the Herald on Sunday , says the dumping of Matthew Bell and Mathew Sinclair from the England tour shows runs at domestic level are not enough to earn Test selection.

As a country India has begun to achieve a lot and grow in confidence so it is no longer appropriate for the cricketers to lose focus after every famous victory, writes Peter Roebuck in the Hindu .

Jamie Pandaram, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , looks at how New South Wales’ talent scouts have found players such as Brett Lee, Michael Clarke and Phillip Hughes

Fewer than 1000 people play cricket in the Big Apple even though it hosted the national championships in 2006, reports Timothy Williams in the New York Times

Richie Benaud will be one of the first inductees into New South Wales’ Hall of Fame, but he tells the Daily Telegraph he would be 12th man if the dozen selected ever played in the same team

On Monday New Zealand will name their squad to tour England and in the Waikato Times , Ian Anderson looks at how few options the selectors have.

The British Pakistani cricket fraternity are to voice their anger at the banning of Shoaib Akhtar in a Southall curry house this evening

Shoaib Akhtar has been banned from international cricket for five years and the Times ' Richard Hobson believes the Pakistan board have saved themselves many hours of disciplinary hearings in the year ahead.

After Virender Sehwag plundered his second Test triple-century, Jaideep Varma argues in holdingwilley.com that Sehwag is the most under-rated cricketer in the world

Matt Pryor meets Mike Gatting who's undertaking his first desk job within the bowels of the ECB: managing director of cricket partnerships.