The Surfer

Steve Waugh’s words of inspiration worked throughout his cricket career and now he is being asked to spread his magic to Australia’s Socceroos, who are preparing for the Asian Cup

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

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.

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.

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

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

England begin rebuilding their ODI side from scratch

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Murali Kartik, plying his trade for Middlesex this season, tells The Indian Express that Monty Panesar's ability to the English audience spellbound has been very special, and that the chats they've had have been centered around spin bowling

After 14 years, Chandigarh's Sector-16 Stadium is likely to host its first one-day international when Australia tour India for a seven-match series later this year