The Surfer

Colin Munro made his Test debut for New Zealand in Port Elizabeth, another cricketer hailing from South Africa before making his career elsewhere

Did the likes of Sehwag, Yuvraj, Harbhajan and Zaheer miss the bus for captaincy when Ganguly and Dravid needed successors?

New Zealand's capitulation to South Africa, when they were bowled out for 45 in Cape Town, is not a flash in the pan, says Mark Reason in stuff.co.nz

In his blog for The Australian, Cuts and Glances, Gideon Haigh takes umbrage at a couple of BBL apologists, including Jonathan Howcroft for his Back Page Lead piece (below)

Who are the outliers in the Australian cricket media landscape, the individuals who you may disagree with more often than not, but challenge the way you think about the game

In his short time as Melbourne Stars captain, Shane Warne has made self-aggrandising statements about his ability to return to Test cricket and dominate, if only he felt like it, denigrated a national captain on television and victimised a vulnerable

Before his impressive ODI debut at the Kotla, Sehazpur Ali Nagar would hardly register Shami Ahmed's homecoming, but things changed on Sunday, writes Shamik Chakrabarty in the Indian Express

This probably is not the right time to bring this up, but maybe this is the right time for Misbah-ul-Haq to step aside as the ODI captain and out of the side itself

Former Bengal seamer Ranadeb Bose recalls his first-class career, his highs and the disappointment of not making it to the national squad

Scyld Berry, writing in the Telegraph on Sunday, makes a case for doing against back-to-back Ashes series

Rob Bagchi, in the Observer, pays tribute to two commentators who died within a week following illustrious careers behind the microphone

Going into the final Test of the South Africa series, New Zealand's selectors face a difficult task and their options are limited, says David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald

On the 72nd anniversary of Tiger Pataudi's birth, The Hindu pays tribute to him via an excerpt - Pataudi: Nawab of Cricket - in which former India player Abbas Ali Baig says Pataudi was one of India's best captains, bringing self-belief and pride

Rahul Bhattacharya, in Wisden India, reminisces India's golden era, which came to an end with the 2011 World Cup

Former first-class cricketer V Ramnarayan, in his blog, describes cricket's value as being similar to a piece of art

Subash Jayaraman, in his blog, compares how various middle-order batsmen have fared when batting with tailenders

In the Guardian, Mike Selvey has a touching tribute for Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the cricket commentator, journalist and former MCC president, who died at the age of 67 on Tuesday

Osman Samiuddin, in the National, says that the burden of hype and hope that surrounds a prospective new fast-bowling hero in Pakistan does more harm than good, and that Junaid Khan should be freed of it

Tony Greig has been the pioneer in dragging cricket 'from its staid past into the modern era', and will be remembered for it, writes Tony Cozier in the Trinidad Express

The IOL announces its cricket awards for 2012, with many of them awarded to the South African team or its players, after a fruitful year for them