In the Guardian Brian Close and Tony Lewis debate whether Twenty20 is destroying the soul of cricket

Will the ICC wake up to the reality of a player-centric popular tournament and create a window so that all, including the English players, can get into the IPL and enjoy the competition and the monetary benefit, asks R Mohan in the Asian Age .

Despite having been embroiled in many controversies; the man who still is a folklore hero, has not lost his bearings

We have read how Warne got the best of the mosquito squadron that was at his command but what we didn’t read about was the backing of the support staff of the Rajasthan Royals, and one of them was a former Mumbai opening batsman Zubin Bharucha,

From gracefully adjusting to a life as a commoner, Sourav Ganguly finds himself in a leadership role again with a golden helmet on his head, writes Sandeep Dwivedi in the Indian Express .

Sir Richard Hadlee, New Zealand's greatest player, tells the Observer's 's Will Buckley that Test cricket should never be compromised by the shorter versions

From the moment he arrived at Middlesex as a precocious 17-year-old in 1987 and won the man-of-the-match award in the 1988 NatWest Trophy final, he has always been English cricket's 'Special One' writes the Daily Telegraph 's Simon Hughes of his

With his IPL success, Rohit Sharma has jumped the queue to take the tag of Indian cricket’s ‘next big thing’

Four of eight teams in the ongoing Twenty20 are owned or managed by individuals with links to either BCCI or IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, writes Shriniwas Rao in the Indian Express .

In the Rediff website , Srinivas Bhogle, Purnendu Maji and Arthur D'Silva crunch numbers to figure out the most valuable player in the IPL so far.

In the Indian Express , Leher Kala writes on the demands placed on the IPL cheerleaders.

Instead of being banned for 11 matches by the organisers of IPL for having slapped Sree Santh, Harbhajan Singh should have been given a medal, writes a cheeky Jug Suraiya in the Times of India

The euphoria of having discovered a new world of cricket cannot be at the cost of certain enduring traditions, writes Rajdeep Sardesai in the Hindustan Times .

Cheerleaders may have added a dash of glitz to the Indian Premier League but Shahid Afridi sees them as a distraction

The Indian Premier League (IPL) may think of the Indian Cricket League (ICL) as a rebel without a cause and the feeling may well be reciprocated but, when it comes to hiring technicians, cheerleaders and even Bollywood stars, they seem like brothers

Giles Smith has a funny take on the IPl in The Times .