Mirror, mirror on the wall

"If [Mickey] Arthur, [Graeme] Smith the rest of the senior players and management decide to try and glue the pieces back together the hard way, these may be some of the very difficult issues they could address," writes Neil Manthorp on supercricket.co.za after South Africa's loss against Bangladesh in Guyana.

* If the golden boys of the national team (Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock, Mark Boucher, Herschelle Gibbs and Makhaya Ntini) are untouchable when the team is playing well and winning, why is Andrew Hall still dispensable even when he is in the best form of his life?

* Is Shaun Pollock happy? Has he been able to cope with the murder of Bob Woolmer, one of the most powerful influences on his life and career? With a young family at home and the simmering reality that Woolmer was killed in an official, ICC sanctioned hotel, and the fact that the ICC have basically said nothing more than 'get on with the tournament' - has his equilibrium been affected?