Last week, David Graveney, England's chairman of selectors, suggested that the British media owed Duncan Fletcher an apology for the nasty things that had been said about him during the tour of Australia

Regardless of the injury concerns that surround him, Michael Vaughan has to be England's captain for the World Cup, writes Michael Atherton in The Sunday Telegraph , because he brings a calmness to the team that has been absent all winter.

"The England cricket team," writes Simon Barnes in The Times , "are in the position of a person who charges back into a burning house to rescue the baby and comes out with the cat."

New Zealand cricket isn't often the height of fashion, but lately it's been sniffed at even more than usual, especially given John Bracewell's disconcerting habit of rotating his starting line-up

Writing in The Guardian , David Hopps points the finger at the joyless hangers-oners in a "bloated" England squad, in particular the security personnel who, he believes, are cramping the style of the younger, more impressionable players - in

Simon Barnes identifies a familiar pattern as the pressure mounts on Duncan Fletcher

In Mumbai today, a match took place in front of the TV cameras that, for the victor, was arguably vastly more significant than the one-day international in Cuttack.

Writing on the Supersport website, Cricinfo's Neil Manthorp gives the alternative angle on the Gibbs controversy, and wonders just how much provocation a player should have to put up with.

In the otherwise venerable SCG museum, there is one hideously mawkish souvenir - a commemorative red hankie, one of several thousand handed out by the Sydney Daily Telegraph on the occasion of Steve Waugh's retirement in January 2004

Since his eight-wicket heroics at the WACA, Monty Panesar has not enjoyed the best of weeks

1.16pm “Have you spoken to John Howard, and do you know if he’s retiring,” asks a reporter, as Warne exits stage left to laughter and a round of applause

No matter how exciting an occasion is, there's only so much capital one can make out of the most isolated city on earth

I walked into a glass partition in the business centre of the team hotel last night

Forgive me while I make a bid for Private Eye's Pseud's Corner, but as a wannabee writer, I've always been a sucker for a bit of onomatopoeia

Adelaide awoke this morning with a massive hangover

I don't think I can ever have been so pleased to hear the Barmy Army in full cry than I was on that final morning at Brisbane

Only now do I feel I've arrived in Australia

The massive media interest in this series has been a blessing in disguise for any member of the press corps who enjoys a bit of atmosphere while they go about their work