Fleming's awkward position

Stephen Fleming is in an awkward position following an offer from the Indian Cricket League - willing to pay huge money to have him play two months a year - and his exclusion from New Zealand's Twenty20 sqaud for the inaugural World Championship in South Africa, writes Dylan Cleaver in the New Zealand Herald

Ideally, Fleming would probably like to do both but if he had to choose, then recent events are making the ICL seem a more attractive proposition by the day.

But he hasn't gone all Jacques Kallis on us by threatening an imminent retirement because he's probably been considering it anyway. He's instead kept a silence he probably feels is dignified, though New Zealand Cricket obviously feels it is counterproductive and confusing, judging by their understandable request for him to speak publicly to "clear the air".