Clarke should go if judged by his own standards of accountability

The severing of all ties between the ECB and Sir Allen Stanford has not stopped the landslide of criticism threatening to swallow up chairman Giles Clarke. As the man who is regarded as the face of English cricket, Clarke must carry the can for the ECB's link to Stanford, says Duncan Fletcher in the Guardian.

Clarke seems happy to take plaudits when things go his way, so he should take the criticism when they do not. He's made a big thing in the past about others being accountable for actions, so I do not see why he shouldn't stand or fall according to his own standards.

The Times' Richard Hobson says the ECB's pearls of wisdom got lost in translation.