The Surfer

New icon Sreesanth rings in changes

Mark Richardson, the former New Zealand batsman, writing in the New Zealand Herald , offers his views on the team selected for the tour of South Africa

Pinball wizardry needed for selection

25-Feb-2013•Sriram Veera

From Fifty-Fifty To Ticking 20

Peter Roebuck believes Anil Kumble would make a good Test captain for India

Kumble as Test captain

The Telegraph ’s travel section contains a piece about what England fans may find when they travel to Sri Lanka this winter… and a hint as to whether or not Galle will be ready for 18 December

Will Galle be ready in time?

Saad Bin Jung, writing in the Asian Age , condemns the treatment meted out to former cricketers who had come to watch the first ODI between India and Australia in Bangalore.

Crying out for some respect

Times of India 's Joseph Hoover comes down hard on Rahul Dravid's decision to resign from the Indian captaincy.

Whither the timing, Dravid?

Munaf Patel, not picked in the Twenty20 side and dropped from the one-day team, is hurt by the constant questioning of his fitness and lack of intensity

Munaf Patel: A question of respect

It seems filmmakers have spotted potential in Sreesanth, known for his on-field antics and drama

Sreesanth's new role

Justin Langer's positive move at Somerset may echo through county championship in 2008, writes Jon Henderson in the Observer .

Captain who saw his success as reason for team's failure

25-Feb-2013•Sriram Veera

A life less ordinary for Yusuf Pathan

Yusuf Pathan has always been in the shadow of his younger brother, Irfan

Even if the maths had been kind to the South Africans, writes Tom Eaton in the Mail & Guardian Online , they were simply not quick-witted enough to compete at the Twenty20 event

Jack the goalie

25-Feb-2013•Will Luke

No reason to be grumpy

Stuart Broad recently joined the list of bowlers who were hit for six sixes in an over when he was taken apart by Yuvraj Singh in the Super Eights stage of the ICC World Twenty20

The psychological impact of a batting onslaught

Recalled New Zealand Test opener Michael Papps reckons he has no lasting hang-ups about being hit by fast bowlers, writes Tim Dunbar in The Press .

Papps ready for South African fast bowlers

Lokendra Pratap Sahi interviews Ricky Ponting on the upcoming one-dayers against India and talks to Sourav Ganguly on India's Twenty20 win in the Kolkata-based Telegraph .

Ponting and Ganguly speak

Twenty20 attracts to a point because it is not supposed to be taken too seriously, writes Rohit Brijnath in the Sportstar .

The value of Twenty20

The first leg with captaincy has been more or less smooth for Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Dhoni - as tough as he looks

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's remark: “A lot of players are coming up from small towns and they are mentally and physically tougher than those from cities" got Mid-Day 's Anand Naik thinking if it was indeed true that players emerging from smaller

Small towns, big dreams