The Surfer

The Challenger Trophy in Chennai will see a host of youngsters making their debut on the big scene

Amid his fraught preparations for the hearings, Inzamam-ul-Haq talks to the Guardian about life, religion and Shoaib Akhtar.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports how the precious Ashes urn is set to make only its second visit to Australia since it was handed to the Hon Ivo Bligh, the England captain, by a group of ladies in 1882

Over the last few weeks it seemed as if Lancashire’s 72-year wait for a Championship title might be nearing an end, but once gain they just failed to do enough and the crown instead headed down to Hove.

The build-up to the World Cup continues to throw up issues … will the grounds be ready, will the infrastructure cope

The Barmy Army have been entertaining supporting England for a number of years, through the dark depression of the nineties and out into the altogether brighter 2000s

Bob Woolmer's recent suggestions to legalise ball-tampering in order to even things out between batsmen and bowlers may not be in the best interests of the game, writes Bob Simpson in Sportstar

Ian Chappell may have been a hard taskmaster during his Australian captaincy days, but as Will Swanton of The Sun Herald observed, meeting Chappell now would 'dispel every ill-conceived notion you had of him'

Michael Atherton, the former England captain, wonders if anyone really cares 'whether a cricket ball was tampered with and whether one man brought the game into disrepute'

Ramachandra Guha has a look at a few fascinating stories linked to some cricketers' names.

It's 20 years since India and Australia played out a titanic contest at Madras, only the second tie in the history of Test cricket.

Ben Dorries attempts a look at the lives of Lara, Tendulkar and Ponting in The Courier-Mail .

Richard Hadlee was the favourite target of Australian supporters in the 1980s and he tells Robert Craddock, of The Courier-Mail , Monty Panesar has done the right thing by seeing a psychologist to deal with potential problems

There are mountains and there are molehills and The Surfer suspects that the latter is about to turn into the former with the news that a private text allegedly sent by the chairman of Leicestershire, Neil Davidson, has caused much indignation at

Chloe Saltau reports in The Age how a Victorian country association has resorted to expensive measures to save their turf competition .

Umpires are in the news again today, starting with Darrell Hair’s belief he will stand in the Champions Trophy