A Surrey state of affairs: Kevin Pietersen given elbow

The Daily Mail tut-tuts after KP sends out an angry tweet about his axing from the England squad and his plan to play for Surrey.

Trott resists Amir's six appeal

The Hindustan Times gets naughty.

I'm KPeed off at the moment

Well, hello there Sun. We've missed you. Not so sure about Pietersen.

Rashid lifts Yorkshire after Cork burst

Puns are fun and not to be shunned. So believe some at cricinfo.com

Pakistan keep series alive ... and then write off our chances in Australia

Ever the stickler for journalistic impartiality, the Mirror reports Salman Butt's remark about England's chances in the Ashes

A Swann song for real men

The usually staid Observer tests the murky waters of puns as it wonders why the England offspinner does not possess a toolbox for things like cat rescues

Wahab you been all this time?

Cricinfo.com can pun too, okay?

Dhoni pitched off in Dambulla

Ain't nobody who can hide a pun from the Hindustan Times, eh?

Cork pops with delight

Did the headline writers at Sky Sports bubble with excitement when putting this one down?

Oz cricket's pale, stale and male

The Sydney Daily Telegraph serves up a damning indictment of the game in Australia

Stu Ranjans into bother

Can the Mirror be fined for finding puns where there are none to be found?

Viva Velvet Smooth Laxman

"Very very special" is too passé for Mid-Day

Kane is more than able

Apart from everything else, the Bible gives us puns too and stuff.co.nz gratefully accepts this one on young Kane Williamson

India go to sleep after lunch

It's a six-word report and a headline from those masters of multi-tasking Yahoo

You twit!

The Daily Mail tells it as it is after Yorkshire player Azeem Rafiq is banned and fined for his outburst on a social-networking site

Jimmy's birthday quake

The Mirror trembles in delight at Anderson's five-for at Headingley

Koertzen call for Rudi

The ECB's website isn't above stooping to such base amusements as puns

Finn edge of wedge

The Mirror is thankful Steven Finn's return to first-class cricket gives them something to play with, headlines-wise

Salman is butting in

You thought even the Sun wouldn't go for something that obvious? How naïve

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Crash, Bang, wallies!

The Sun puts England's ODI defeat to Bangladesh in perspective with its customary restraint