The Surfer

Dean Jones is pushing for a spot on Cricket Victoria’s board but there are concerns over a conflict of interest because of his role in the Indian Cricket League

Jones eyes place on Cricket Victoria board

Michael Atherton says in the Sunday Telegraph that England must pick Monty Panesar as he is potentially England's best modern one-day spinner

Why England must turn to Monty Panesar

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

How BCCI slept over its own 'ICL'

Chandresh Narayanan, writing in the Times of India , traces the origins of the Indian board's own professional league.

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Coverage on Mascarenhas

Sports sections of the London dailies have left Alex Brown rather unimpressed after they failed to mention the successes of Dimtri Mascarenhas, who according to Brown, "might sound like an outdated 1990s dance fad, but is making all the right

Richard Boock looks at the practice of denying basic technological assistance to umpires and referees in sports with a jaundiced eye in New Zealand's Sunday Star Times .

Protection of umpires

The BCCI-ICL face-off continues and who will emerge the winner among two is a favourite question with comment and leader writers.

‘I don’t play for the camera, I am not scared of anything’

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

The odds on BCCI and ICL

Nandan Kamath, the director of an advisory firm for sports persons, believes that the competition from the ICL will be good for Indian cricket

ICL will unlock hidden value in cricket

Australia game for video technology

Germany’s coach is excited by Shane Warne’s passport adventures and has invited him to play for his team

Warne promised warm willkommen in Deutschland

Rahul Dravid has escaped a grilling over India's defeat in the first ODI against England as his cricket board faces the threat of a breakaway league at home, writes David Hopps in the Guardian

India's problems at home spare Dravid a full one-day inquisition

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Butchering Pakistan cricket?

The folks at Pakistan's the Post newspaper don't seem to be particularly fond of the Pakistan Cricket Board

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Centuries rub salt in wound of Shah's omission

The first ODI against India might've been the perfect game for Paul Collingwood and cohorts, but for Owais Shah, surprisingly dropped before the game, it probably wasn't

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

New coach and new challenges for Australia

You must have read the news that Shane Warne is considering applying for a German passport so he can play county cricket as a non-overseas player next year

Und guten Morgen, Herr Shane Varner

"I would have done the same," says Ganguly in an interview to Debasish Datta in the Mid-day

Ganguly supports Dravid's decision to not enforce follow-on

Scyld Berry has called for the reformation of the ECB

Should the ECB be re-formed?

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Fleming's awkward position

Stephen Fleming is in an awkward position following an offer from the Indian Cricket League - willing to pay huge money to have him play two months a year - and his exclusion from New Zealand's Twenty20 sqaud for the inaugural World Championship