The Surfer

Kumar Sangakkara is going back to school next week

Shoaib Malik's appointment as captain of Pakistan, that too at the sprightly age of 25, was a proud moment for a family of seven from Sialkot

Aspiring actors wanting to break through in Hollywood often have to wait on tables for years on end as they bide their time, patiently but confidently

John Wright, set to take over from Ric Charlesworth as New Zealand Cricket's high performance manager, looks ahead to his new role, the frustration at being overlooked last month as a national selector and the talented players to look out for

The ABC documentary Guru Greg, on Greg Chappell's controversial tenure as India coach, is finally out

With the arrival of Twenty20 and several obits being written on the 50-over game, Harsha Bhogle feels that Test cricket will remain in robust health

Stuart MacGill's struggles in the Test series against Sri Lanka have put Australia's selectors in a tricky position ahead of such a hectic upcoming Test schedule

Australia might have lost a few of their ageing stars after last summer but as Greg Baum discovers in the Age , some cricketers have a good 50 years left in them by the time they reach their late 30s.

Kumar Sangakkara's, who scored 192 in the second Test against Australia in Hobart, has received rave reviews, not only for the manner in which it was scored his runs, but the way he took umpire Rudi Koertzen's decision to rule him out when replays

A report in The Sunday Telegraph highlights a change of approach from the UK government which makes it less likely that any England side will play Zimbabwe while Robert Mugabe remains in power.

India-Pakistan series still has staggering appeal, writes Nagraj Gollapudi in the Observer .

Guardian 's Andy Bull interviews Essex and England batsmen Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara on flipping sponsors' cars, reading books by former coaches and future English captains.

Siddhartha Mishra looks back at the 18 years of Sachin Tendulkar's international career and writes in the Times of India that Tendulkar hasn't necessarily changed his nature

Yuvraj Singh is the world's best limited-overs player, says Ayaz Memon in the Daily News & Analysis

Greg Chappell is in Jaipur as the head coach of the Rajasthan Cricket Academy, the brainchild of Rajasthan Cricket Association president and influential BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi

Even as Chris Martin zeroes in on records , Paul Holden, writing in the stuff.co.nz website, tracks the men who can bat ahead of Martin at the list of all-time Black Cap lower-order batting battlers.

Harsha Bhogle asks the embarrassing question at espnstar.com .

The Daily Telegraph’s Tony Francis has been in Galle where the reconstruction of the cricket ground following the devastation of the 2004 tsunami is almost complete.