The Surfer

Kevin Pietersen has cut a detached and perturbed figure through campaigns on three different continents and all he has had to show for it is a one-day trophy for beating Sri Lanka and a batting average slumming it in the low thirties, writes Simon

More than a decade ago Lalit Modi tried to launch an officially sanctioned professional cricket league but was thwarted by what he describes as "vested interests" in Indian cricket

"Until Graeme Smith can produce against Australia, some pundits might see him as a flat-track bully who can plunder two double tons against minnows Bangladesh, but when it comes to the finest opposition, is found wanting

"The music is a giveaway," writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald

Harsha Bhogle wasn't particularly impressed with Ishant Sharma when he first saw him at nets in England

Iqbal Abdulla, the India under-19 left-arm spinner, was entrusted with taking the World Cup from Bangalore to the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai

India's CB Series campaign reflects the personality of Mahendra Singh Dhoni according to the editors at the Hindu .

In the concluding part of the Times' series of extracts from his latest book, Ed Smith asks if sportsmanship is indeed dead

John Emburey, the former England and Middlesex offspinner, has been appointed coach by one of the ICL franchises

Andrew Webster, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , compares Andrew Symonds’ shoulder charge during the second final to other big hits and talks to rugby league players about the tackle.

Anand Vasu looks back at the under-19 Indian players who were involved in the World Cup in 2000 and tracks their progress

Barney Ronay, in his blog in the Guardian , does a take on Channel 9's coverage of the first final of the CB Series between Australia and India in light of Matthew Hayden's controversial comments about Harbhajan Singh and Ishant Sharma.

Steve Waugh in the Daily Telegraph gives his take on Matthew Hayden’s “obnoxious weed” comment about Harbhajan Singh.

Houston billionaire Sir Allen Stanford tells the Observer 's Andy Bull how, from his base in Antigua, he hopes to revive Caribbean cricket and sell the game to middle America.

Shane Bond, who joined the Indian Cricket League, doesn't know why he is being treated like a rebel

Peter Moores begins the Test series against New Zealand next week as a coach under pressure