The Surfer

In a freewheeling interview with Brian Viner of The Independent , Justin Langer talks about his love for the game's history, life after retirement, what England could do to regain the Ashes, and also has time to talk about Ricky Ponting's

India's pedestrian performance with the ball on the first day at Lord's has come in for plenty of flak

Brett Lee is set to return from injury at the Twenty20 World Championship, according to Robert Craddock in the Courier-Mail .

Amid all the flak flying between the West Indies board and its players, the WICB has found an ally in Jamaica Gleaner who have launched a stinging attack on Dinanath Ramnarine, the chief executive of WIPA, the players’ association.

Patrick Kidd writes in The Times his view that Rahul Dravid is better than Sachin Tendulkar.

Zimbabwe have dropped out of the ICC Test rankings, leaving the ICC in the embarrassing situation of being controlled by ten Test countries when only nine are officially listed, writes Malcolm Conn in The Australian .

Christopher Martin-Jenkins believes that a modern tendency has been responsible for demeaning the game’s fundamental spirit

Is the future bleak for independent schools’ cricket

Freddie's resumed training

Worcestershire have been in the news a lot lately, much of it for the wrong reasons

Kapil Dev tells Will Buckley, of The Observer , how India lost the fear of winning as they prepare for Lord's.

Sachin Tendulkar has had no more noted admirer than Bradman himself, but are the Little Master’s powers on the wane

'Dravid comes as one part of a mouth-watering middle-order that includes Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman

India's tour of England will provide the final opportunity for many of their stars to finally achieve a Test series win in England, writes Angus Fraser in The Independent .

The Falkland Islands were granted affiliate member status by the ICC on June 29, along with Cameroon, Peru and Swaziland

Yanked from pillar to post by their ludicrous itinerary, England's cricketers are playing from memory, on auto pilot, rather than with real zest and focus, writes Simon Hughes in The Telegraph .

"The most memorable image of perhaps the most brilliant era of Indian cricket," says Rahul Bhattacharya in The Guardian , "is of a half-naked man on a handsome terracotta balcony