The Surfer

The ICC must expel Zimbabwe in the wake of a damning audit and sanction Sunil Gavaskar, chairman of the ICC's cricket committee, for his newspaper column in reaction to match referee Mike Procter's imposition of a three-Test ban on Harbhajan Singh,

Bangladesh lost both Tests and all three ODIs against South Africa and the Dhaka-based Daily Star 's Shakil Kasem is convinced the team is fast approaching the status of Clown Princes.

In the Guardian Vic Marks describes an edgy and windy day at the Basin Reserve where England made several fielding errors.

Five New Zealand players are set to play in the IPL which clashes with the start of their tour of England

Dale Steyn brings an uncommon freshness to his profession of fast bowling, a sense that he is a human being of normal height and build at once amazed and disturbed by his ability to take someone’s head off with a shiny, stitched orb, writes Telford

Sitting at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula, Rahut Bhatia notices that there's a distinct buzz around the small ground

In The Times Christopher Martin-Jenkins pulls no punches in putting forward his views on the ECB’s plans for Twenty20 cricket this coming summer, describing them as a “knee-jerk” reaction to the IPL.

A cluster of post-lunch wickets in Wellington suggested WG Grace was wrong when he famously advised against ever bowling first, says Vic Marks, in the Guardian , on the first day's play between England and New Zealand in Wellington.

"By the end of this week South Africa will be the No1 one-day team in world cricket, if all goes according to plan," writes Archie Henderson in the Times , the Johannesburg-based daily.

"I can foresee a train smash happening

"Right from my first tour to Australia in 1991, it has been tough, but fantastic

Some predictions for the second Test in Wellington from Sideline Slogger Paul Holden: