The Surfer

A bomb blast in the north-eastern city of Guwahati, the venue for the fourth England-India one-dayer, has caused the authorities at Lord's to keep a tab on the security situation

Focus on Guwahati

Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald South Africa’s first-Test defeat doesn’t seem to have happened

Proteas suffer Johannesburg hangover

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Booing the master

It's not often that Sachin Tendulkar is booed from a cricket ground, but the unthinkable happened at the Wankhede Stadium, his home ground, yesterday.

Kenya's Daily Nation caught up with Maurice Odumbe and he talked about his life after being banned for associating with bookmakers

Odumbe: Life after the ban

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Grounds for concern

The ECB has admitted they lost out on £12million during last year's Ashes owing to their under-sized grounds:

It might only be March but one eye is, inevitably, on the Ashes next winter

England's Ashes selection dilemma

Stuart Clark is the new Glenn McGrath, Australia's metronome and affectionately known as "pigeon"

Coo the new pigeon for Australia

Michael Atherton writes on a lifelong friendship between Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli:

Kambli's bit part in Sachin's surge to stardom

Sachin Tendulkar talks to Clayton Murzello on his seven previous Tests at the Wankhede Stadium.

Sachin relives his Wankhede moments

After last Sunday's carnage, in which South Africa chased down 435 to beat Australia, Trevor Marshallsea argues that it might act as a trigger for the "uber-bowler," and his sentiments are supported by Damien Fleming, the former Australian swing

The age of the uber-bowler?

Andrew Flintoff is in preparation for the longest and hardest test of his career, when the Mumbai showdown gets underway tomorrow morning

Hare Freddie, hare hare

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Miller

A manic taxi ride and other stories

Alastair Cook, in his tour diary in The Telegraph , writes about a manic taxi ride in Mumbai, a humbling visit to an orphanage and his hope to end the tour on a winning note

Matthew Hoggard, in his tour diary in The Times cracks up at the sight of Andrew Flintoff and Michael Vaughan singing together in an advertisement

Shower the captain with praise?

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The maid & the toothbrush

Dean Jones recounts a hilarious anecdote about his epic knock in the famous tied Test at Madras

This day , 19 years ago, Sunil Gavaskar, in what turned out to be his last Test, produced a master class against Pakistan on a crumbler

Gavaskar's last hurray

The small town revolution is here to stay in Indian cricket.Makarand Waingankar in The Sportstar explains the sudden transition.

Majority from minority

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Big hits and big money make for dark future

Watching cricket on Indian television, with the incessant stream of adverts, tries one’s patience, says Simon Barnes in The Times

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

'It's a 450 wicket, guys ... they're about 15 short!'

Neil Manthorp revisits the big game

The rush to grab tickets for England's encounter against Ireland has started, with £100,000 raised from ticket sales - even before they've gone on sale

Irish ticket rush begins