England's grasp on Wisden Trophy weakens

Vic Marks bemoans the lifeless pitches in the Caribbean which have helped batsmen fill their boots. After watching several batathons, he writes in the Guardian that perhaps Duckworth and Lewis should to come up with a new formula.

Often we conclude that so-and-so's runs should count double because they have been scored on a dicey pitch in a taut situation. But in circumstances like these in Trinidad and the ones experienced in Barbados, the value of the batsmen's runs should be halved or reduced by whatever quotient Mr D and Mr L come up with.

After Shivnarine Chanderpaul made yet another century against England, Stephen Brenkley writes in the Independent that "no batsman can have been a greater pain in their [England's] collective backside than Shivnarine Chanderpaul".