The Surfer

Amer Malik, writing for Financial Times , relives the warmth of the raw game of cricket in the streets and playgrounds of Sindh, Pakistan.

Exploring cricket's home in Pakistan's interiors

Steve James, writing in the Daily Telegraph , says Sri Lanka’s offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan’s suggestion for a franchise based T20 competition in England, with fewer county teams participating, won’t be effective as county allegiances have been

'Franchises won't boost T20 cricket in England'

Mike Selvey, writing in the Guardian , says that Tom Maynard, the Surrey and England Lions batsman, who died after being hit by a London Underground train on Monday, was a batsman of prodigious talent and prospect.

'Tom Maynard was destined for stardom'

Former West Indies captain Viv Richards tells former England captain Nasser Hussain, in the Daily Mail , that he is proud of the legacy left behind by the powerful West Indies side of the 1980s.

Viv Richards on the West Indies legacy

Pune Warriors captain Sourav Ganguly, writing in Wisden , compares international cricket to the IPL

'IPL is a very difficult format'

Former India captain Anil Kumble has 619 Test wickets and 337 ODI wickets to his credit

Anil Kumble’s lesson for the youth

Sports aerodynamics consultant and NASA scientist Rabindra Mehta on how weather conditions affect the ball’s aerodynamics, in the Dawn .

The science of swing

Ian Bell has proven beyond doubt - and rather quickly - that he is a natural successor to Kevin Pietersen in England's one-day line-up, says Steve James, in the Sunday Telegraph .

Bell settles quickly into Pietersen's role

In light of Kevin Pietersen's retirement from limited-overs cricket, Stephen Brenkley, writing in the Independent , says one-day cricket is still the preferred format for the investors but may well die out if the players withdraw their support and

One-day cricket's player-investor conundrum

The Indian Express ' Bharat Sundaresan and Devendra Pandey tell the story of three boys in their early teens who have been setting records in Mumbai

Three teenagers, three seasons, 25,000 runs

Wes Hall's status as a West Indies legend has been reaffirmed with him being knighted

Wes Hall, a West Indies icon

A plan to revamp Victoria Park, a popular sports park in the middle of Auckland, and make it a Test venue is gathering momentum, according to New Zealand Herald

Victoria Park 'wishful' Test venue in Auckland

David Leggat writes in New Zealand Herald , that there were some in the cricket establishment who seemed to love the razzmatazz of Allen Stanford and the big money and must now be feeling ashamed.

Stanford alliance a lesson

In an interview with Daily Telegraph , Tino Best says his innings of 95 was emotional since it showed how much he cares for West Indies cricket and also because it would finally put to bed the ‘mind the windows’ comment by Andrew Flintoff eight

Why Best's knock matters

Michele Hewitson, writing for New Zealand Herald , says that it is impossible to know Mark Richardson the man

'Selfish' Richardson's many personalities

An area of decline in Pakistan's recent ODI history is in chasing targets of over 250

Pakistan's chasing woes

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Why not the Duleep for India's age-group cricketers?

The Hindu 's G Viswanath says the Duleep Trophy could be made more relevant if it featured young India hopefuls

Less than a week after a young Tamil Nadu cricketer was found hanging in his house in Chennai, the issue of depression amongst cricketers has come to the fore again

Cricket and depression – the dark alchemy