The Surfer

In the New Zealand Herald , Chris Rattue salutes Australia for helping set tremendous Test standards and featuring in most of the best series, but says that they also need to realise that they can't always rule the game

Its that time of the year

Shane Warne, in his Daily Telegraph column, has advised a beleaguered Brett Lee to go into the Boxing Day Test and just let all hell break loose

It almost slipped by unnoticed as Daniel Vettori took his place among the game's elite allround cricketers, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald .

AB de Villiers played a crucial role in South Africa's historic run-chase against Australia in Perth, scoring a half-century in the first innings and a nerveless century in the second

Australia lost a Test match they could not have lost, prompting the question - Is this the beginning of the end of the world's number one team (or maybe even the middle portion of the end, after the 0-2 defeat against India)

Australia have brought in some new players for Boxing Day following the shocking defeat to South Africa, but Peter Roebuck, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , believes a switch in attitude is more important.

Fazeer Mohammed, writing in the Trinidad and Tobago Express , lauds Graeme Smith for his inspirational leadership in his team’s record run-chase against Australia in Perth, particularly because it came amid deeper, more serious off-field issues,

I am faced with a dilemma, caught in a struggle, on the one side of which lies my "responsibility" to the nation and the other to cricket and its followers, writes Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times .

Robert Craddock writes in the Courier Mail about the poor attitude from the Australians during the defeat in Perth.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) hit a new low when they came across some empty bins for the bids of annual sponsors which included Dilmah, which has almost become a household name in the country, while another sponsor believed this was a good opportunity to

Two great batsmen of this generation are clinging on after glittering careers - Matthew Hayden and Rahul Dravid

Robert Craddock writes in the Sunday Telegraph that Graeme Smith, who scored 108 in South Africa’s second innings in Perth, is as tough as a half-chewed piece of biltong.

Tim Lane, writing in the Sunday Age , says Mitchell Johnson’s eight-wicket haul in Perth was an example of what makes the traditional game so compelling.