The Surfer

Graeme Smith speaks to the Telegraph 's Lokendra Pratap Sahi just a few weeks before completing four years as South Africa’s captain:

To keep faith in Sehwag ahead of the World Cup was a team priority," writes R Mohan in the Deccan Chronicle

Richard Branson, a man who has never knowingly missed an opportunity to self-publicise, stepped up and announced that the Ashes should stay in Australia

There have been some suggestions that England’s poor form this series is somehow related to having the WAGs on tour

John Coomber in The New Zealand Herald notes that Australian cricket’s marketing men risk destroying Test cricket because of their ignorance of the basic product

Sunil Gavaskar, in his column, tries to investigate the reasons behind Irfan Pathan's spectacular decline as a Test bowler since his hat-trick at Karachi earlier this year

Billy Bowden is well known for his umpiring idiosyncracies

Here’s an unusual piece from The Sunday Telegraph , but one which is well worth a read

Ross Taylor, the promising young New Zealand batsman who scored his maiden one-day hundred in just his third match, ended up in hospital attached to a saline drip and unable to celebrate his milestone

The Australian press is revelling in the team's Ashes dominance and plenty of space is being devoted to Shane Warne, who signed off his final MCG Test with a man-of-the-match award for his seven wickets

Australia are once again moving away from the pack in international cricket and John Buchanan, the coach, has said it is down to the rest to catch up

After a fourth consecutive hammering, the English press are gearing up for an Ashes whitewash and talk as one about how the tour continues to lurch from one disaster to another

While Shane Warne has been showered with accolades after taking his 700th Test wicket, the respected statistician Bill Frindall has bucked the trend and suggested that Warne is not quite there yet.

Shane Warne’s 700th wicket really was memorable stuff – he did it on his home ground, on Boxing Day, with a typical legbreak and went on to take four more

The imminent departure of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath from the Australia side might be giving parochial fans conniptions but as Peter Roebuck writes in the Sydney Morning Herald , the pair should be celebrated, not mourned.

In The Observer , former England offspinner Vic Marks takes a look at the one-day squad … Harmison out, Panesar in - and all captained by..

In his News Ltd column Glenn McGrath looks back at his wonderful career and the 13 months in the caravan