The Surfer

New South Wales is buzzing

In the midst of all the uncertainty surrounding West Indian cricket, the A team are embarking on a tour of England, one that, Tony Cozier feels , is likely to be as pointless as a club jaunt.

Half the year has drifted by already, and Kevin Mitchell's thoughts are turning towards the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards

New Zealand aren't able to rustle up a single meaningful match while the rest of the world is talking a about player burnout

Geraint Jones, England's under-pressure wicketkeeper , only kept the Pakistani leg spinner at bay for 20 balls, reports David Hopps in The Guardian .

As Pakistan's tour of England gets underway, the thousands of immigrant Pakistanis face a dilemma of which team to support - their country of origin or their adopted country

Funny as it may seem, but for the first time, yesterday was the first time David Shepherd watched a Lord's Test as a spectator

Martin Crowe had much to say about ICC's '15-degree bend' and a lot more during the annual Cowdrey lecture

Owing to Graeme Smith's ankle injury, Ashwell Prince will lead South Africa on their tour of Sri Lanka in August

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Several top former West Indies Test cricketers and administrators have paid glowing tribute to Joey Carew for his service to West Indies cricket

A three-day match against Leicestershire, a one-day bash in Scotland, a four-day fixture against England A at Canterbury and a Twenty20 slog, irrelevant to the longer form of the game, has been the sum total of our preparation before the first Test,

Matthew Hoggard has been spending time in an oxygen chamber to speed up his recovery from a hand injury

"Non first-class cricket in Pakistan has been played with a tape ball in every galli (lane) and rural field for 20 years," writes Osman Samiuddin in The Guardian

In The Daily Telegraph former UK sports minister Kate Hoey reveals that the Blair government’s obsession for creating red tape wherever possible now extends to club bars

Greg Chappell has impressed certain loyalists and made friends in Indian cricket circles, and then some

Inzamam-ul-Haq tells Donald McRae, of the Guardian , he is confident of repeating his success from last winter on his final tour of England

It will be a pleasure to return to the majesty of Test cricket after the frenzy of the football, writes Mike Marqusee in The Hindu .

Tebbit would no doubt feel a bit smug if he read what The News had to say about many Pakistani immigrants in Britain today.