The Surfer

Simon Briggs writing in The Daily Telegraph reports that the launch of the Indian Cricket League was not the slick affair that had been expected and it raised concerns about what is to come.

It seems that Shane Warne’s spin has done it again

The arrest of former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has attracted widespread global interest

Creating a Warne-Muralitharan Trophy was a mistake from the start, writes Greg Baum in the Age .

Malcolm Conn, writing in the Australian , reveals that Greg Chappell, in a documentary, had said that the Indian board had covered up an incident involving a fan who assaulted him after breaching team security.

'On Monday I wrote that Mathew Sinclair should be in the test team', writes Hamish McDouall in the stuff website

John Inverdale, writing in The Daily Telegraph , says that the Indian Cricket League has restored the word “rebel” to the cricket world after a 30-year absence

Andre Nel intrigues me, writes Paul Holden in his stuff.co.nz website blog, Sideline Slogger .

As the row over Cricket Australia’s demands to charge agencies for access to international matches grows, the pressure on the board escalates, although it has, perhaps unsurprisingly, found an ally in the Indian board, an organization which is not

Nobody ever expected an Ashes-like audience for the first Test of Australia’s home summer but the turnout at the Gabba was disappointing regardless, writes Jon Pierik in the Daily Telegraph .

For the second season running, a prospective challenger to Australia's hegemony has been sent packing

Alex Loudon gave up cricket this year, at the age of 27, just a year after making his England debut

Scyld Berry writing in The Daily Telegraph is of the opinion that the Indian Cricket League is set to fail, and much of the blame lies with Kapil Dev whose “great sense of timing has deserted him”.

Tony Becca, of the Jamaica Gleaner agrees with the media protest against Cricket Australia's decision to charge a fee to cover the game.

Wonder why Jacques Kallis has not managed to score a double century yet

Will the Patterson Report be left to join the dusty archive of unexamined good intentions or will it set a new course to West Indies cricket

Brett Lee missed this year’s World Cup with an ankle injury but he is guaranteed to star at the next one

If England want to win the Test series in Sri Lanka, they must treat the tour "as a challenge rather than a hardship," writes Dileep Premachandran in the Guardian .