Fragile Flintoff can only watch as firebrand Broad steps into his role

Although clearly in pain from his injured right hip, Andrew Flintoff bowled on a tense final day in Antigua, sending down two spells before leaving the field wicketless. Flintoff strained every sinew as England pushed for victory, but he was overshadowed by a much younger bowling team-mate. England's struggling allrounder knows that Stuart Broad is waiting to step into his shoes, says Vic Marks in the Telegraph.

In the Independent, Tony Cozier says that West Indies ended with their tails up after a dispiriting week, and that it took the composure of tailenders not reputed for such level-headedness to do so.

James Lawton, in the same paper, recalls his stormy altercation with Viv Richards nearly 18 years ago. In his own words, that bust-up with Sir Viv was bigger than World War III, and stole a certain Bush and Gorbachev's thunder.

April 14, 1990, the Recreation Ground in Antigua, bailiwick of King Vivian Richards, lord of the island, are a date and a place I was never likely to forget. But then nor was I quite prepared for the vividness of recall when the old Test battleground came back to fleeting life this week.

It was the shuddering anger, so perfectly preserved, of the great man that did it.

In the Trinidad Guardian, Vaneisa Baksh says the blight of West Indian cricket has got to her. She is not going to any cricket matches organised by the West Indies Cricket Board, and it isn’t simply to protest the gross dereliction of duty in Antigua - it is more out of disgust with its response to it.