The Surfer

Hair back in action ... in Canada

The Indian team management's SOS call to Ranadeb Bose, Arjun Yadav, Ishant Sharma and Rakesh Patel is not the first such instance of players being drafted in the last minute in an emergency during an England tour

Able but unreachable

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Louts threaten to gatecrash Twenty20 party

In The Daily Telegraph Derek Pringle warns that the success of Twenty20 cricket is bringing its own set of problems with growing worries about the behaviour of crowds

Writing in The Daily Telegraph , Kate Hoey, the former Sports Minister, demands that her successor, Richard Caborn, takes the same stance that the Australian government recently took, and demands a boycott of Zimbabwean cricket.

British government must back Zimbabwe boycott

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Miller

Excellence suffers in lurid pursuit of money

In a typically impassioned article, the chief sports writer of The Times , Simon Barnes, hits out at sport's current obsession with money over excellence, citing the West Indies' miserable tour as a prime example.

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Miller

Can Rahul Dravid inspire more away success?

Familiar themes recur as India prepare to take on England in England: opening conundrums, lack of pace, general travel-sickness and pondering over the form of Sachin Tendulkar

Bob Woolmer's death sparked off a storm of speculation and rumour unlike any seen in cricket before

The last moments of this man's life

Ireland were, in many ways, the story of the World Cup

Sunny days aren't here again

England begin rebuilding their ODI side from scratch

Collingwood embarks on a long road

Patrick Kidd in The Times writes that the Twenty20 Cup, which starts today, has grown from a gimmick into a fully-fledged and respected competition.

Twenty20 selling tickets, but not the game's soul

Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun the international players’ association and the ICC have not agreed on terms for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa in September.

Players fight for rights at Twenty20 World Championship

The Daily Telegraph's Michael Henderson, who had a pop at crowd behaviour at Old Trafford last week, widens his brief and lambastes the way that crowds approach cricket-watching

Bad behaviour highlights loss of silent witness

Although England completed a 3-0 rout of West Indies at Chester-le-Street, the reaction in the media in the UK has been low-key, perhaps a reflection on the weakness of the tourists and an acceptance that India will be a completely different

A series best forgotten

The Times of India reports of a two-page letter written by the BCCI to the members of the touring party to Ireland and England

A difficult phase for Indian cricket

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Australians back more drug testing

Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun about Australia’s players, including Shane Watson, supporting more drug testing measures

In The Daily Telegraph Tony Francis travels to Ireland to see if the World Cup was a flash in the pan or something more significant

Irish game on a sticky wicket