The Surfer

Steve Waugh says it's time to strip Zimbabwe of international status

Waugh's Zimbabwe solution

Xan Rice of the Observer Sports Monthly meets Duncan Fletcher and tries to get into the mind of a man who has changed his country, his profession, as well as the fortunes of English cricket.

Fletcher speak

Laurie Clancy reviews three books on the historic Ashes series.

Raking over the Ashes

Neil Manthorp introduces the four new faces in the South African side, currently touring Australia:

The new-look South Africans

Shoaib Ahmed celebrates Brian Lara's ascent to the top of the run-scoring mountain and traces the progression of the record down the years.

Lara scales another mountain

The future of Hamish Marshall playing for New Zealand is in doubt , so says Dylan Cleaver:

Marshall's future in the balance

Glamorgan have honoured some of their cricketing greats to have represented the club, including:

Honouring the daffs

It is hardly surprising that Andrew Flintoff didn't manage to lay a bat on Danish Kaneria's stunning googly on the final day at Lahore

Flintoff running on empty

OK, so the feel-good factor over the Ashes is slipping away faster than a Shoaib Akhtar yorker

Ashes effect still burning

Brett Lee's destructive bowling wasn't appreciated by a partisan New Zealand crowd - who are fairly famous for their behavior, especially towards the Australian cricket team.

Kiwi fruit and apples

Australia's elite cricketers of the 1970s share an intimacy and popularity perhaps unparalleled in Australian sport, writes Mike Coward , and appreciates the manner in which they came together to rally behind Gary Gilmour.

Chappell brotherhood acts

Matthew Ricketson writes on the various books released on the epic Ashes series:

Ashes cover drive

The entertaining Martin Johnson in the Daily Telegraph writes about the delights of Lahore:

Cramming quarts into pint pots

The Zimbabwe Independent carries an interview with Themba Mliswa, the man whose threats against Tatenda Taibu's family led to his resignation as Zimbabwe captain

The man behind the threats

Peter Roebuck writes that Adam Gilchrist must consider retiring from 50-over cricket.

Even for Gilchrist there's a limit

As England fall apart in front of our very eyes at Lahore - "It's been a tough tour mentally," Duncan Fletcher admitted last night

Dreams of bacon butties and a pint of Old Peculier

Kent might be selling their most famous cricket painting, Albert Chevallier Tayler's painting of Kent v Lancashire in 1906:

100-year-old cricket painting up for sale

Richard Boock details the pessimist's guide to beating the Aussies , ahead of Australia's tour of New Zealand :

How to beat Australia - a pessimist's guide

Former New Zealand batsman Mark Richardson has copped flack in Australia after accusing the Australians of arrogance after they decided to rest Glenn McGrath for the Chappell-Hadlee one-day series:

Australian arrogance?