A first look at the ratings by TAM Peoplemeter System shows that IPL has delivered a record opening, write Ratna Bhushan and Surbhi Goel in the Economic Times

Most English players will be playing county cricket during the first edition of the Indian Premier League but Mike Selvey thinks with the introduction of the Twenty20 tournament this could be the last English domestic season as we know it

In the Sunday Telegraph , Steve James writes that should Robert Mugabe be forced from office in Zimbabwe then there will be a bonus for cricket in the country in that it may well signal the demise of ZC chairman Peter Chingoka.

Seeing India go through their motions on a lively Motera pitch, one got a feeling that Test cricket is on its deathbed, writes Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times .

Whether IPL is a boon or bane to Indian cricket remains to be seen when it begins, but one thing is absolutely certain that young Indian cricketers will manipulate all possible loopholes in the system to make it to the under-19 or the under-22 ,

Rarely have England looked so devoid of energy as they plunged to a miserable defeat in Hamilton, writes Vic Marks in the Guardian .

The startling figures paid for the star players at the IPL auction stands testimony to the power of the new Indian market, writes Mike Marquesee in the Hindu

Racism in sport is not a new phenomenon, writes KN Anand in the New Indian Express .

Chris Gayle is back as the West Indies captain but Tony Becca, writing in the Jamaica Gleaner , wonders what happened to Ramnaresh Sarwan?

Indian cricket teams have owned this belief before, but never held onto it, because their commitment to excellence, and each other, was fickle, writes Rohit Brijnath in the BBC website .

Houston billionaire Sir Allen Stanford tells the Observer 's Andy Bull how, from his base in Antigua, he hopes to revive Caribbean cricket and sell the game to middle America.