The Surfer

A Twenty20 world championship may be slotted into the calendar as soon as next year as the format born in England continues to pass every test of its popularity, writes Richard Hobson in The Times .

Against bowlers of pace you can play with controlled aggression, for their sheer pace means you don't have to go hard at the ball

Trevor Marshallsea, the Sydney Morning Herald cricket writer who reported last week Adam Gilchrist was headed to No

Twenty-over cricket is here to stay

Jeff Thomson believes Glenn McGrath is too old and his effectiveness is in doubt for the 2007 World Cup.

As the speculation surrounding Troy Cooley’s replacement as England bowling coach rumbles on, Mike Selvey says in The Guardian that only a home-grown coach will do for the job

Vin Maskell has had enough of TV's constant slow-motion replays, and questions whether cricket on TV is losing its appeal :

What do Evo Morales, the Iranian government and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have in common?

No, Geoff hasn't given himself an ironic middle name

Dennis Lillee has been helping Shane Watson, who is recovering from a shoulder injury, refine his action and he now believes Watson is good enough to get into the Australian side on his bowling alone:

Here we go again

The Indian board is handing over some money

A dissident group of umpires were yesterday pondering the collapse of the Association of Umpires & Scorers special meeting at the Derbyshire County Ground on Saturday

Isa Guha writes in the Bucks Free Press about her ambitions, on playing against Australia and her forthcoming trip to Lord's to face India

Tanya Aldred of The Guardian had called it as the tandoori ashes and now a Pakistani, Dr Saeed Durrani of Islamabad, in a letter to editor in the The Daily times , Pakistani daily, suggests ' Rakhi ', after rejecting words like Khak and Khakister

When Sourav Ganguly ran in to the middle with the drinks and was seen egging Mahendra Singh Dhoni,involved in a battle with Shoaib Akthar, some Pakistan cricketers couldn't let go the opportunity to indulge in a banter with the former India

Harbhajan Singh joined the Pakistan team on Sunday to hear Maulana Tariq Jamil,a young preacher from the Tableeghi Jamat sect, speak

The Australian’s Malcolm Conn can’t understand why Phil Jaques, who scored 94 on debut in Melbourne, has been dropped .

Richard Boock is full of praise of the just-retired Chris Cairns who, he considers , is a genius: