England better off losing the Stanford match?

In his weekly email on cricket, The Spin, Lawrence Booth lists ten reasons why missing out on Stanford's cash may be good for England. One of them is: "The car parks of county grounds next summer will not now be stocked by pink Ferraris." For the others, click here.

And continuing the list theme, John Stern has five lessons learnt during the Stanford week.

KP is the new Tony Greig. The obvious similarities were there before but his revoltingly condescending quotes about how Chris Gayle and his team needed the money more took him dangerously close to ‘grovel’ territory.

Read more in the Wisden Cricketer.