Sick or Super Series?

Let’s start the end-of-the-one-day Super Series debate in Melbourne with The Age, the city’s broadsheet. Peter Roebuck writes the World XI was “badly led, poorly selected, abysmal in the field … and mauled”. Greg Baum believes the limited-overs series had no point and was hampered by poor timing, despite “spectacular hitting, artful slow bowling and lots of beach balls”.

The Herald Sun’s Ron Reed says the three-match contest could not have been more one-sided if Australia were playing Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.

On the minnows theme, Malcolm Conn of The Australian talks to Ehsan Mani, the ICC president, about creating a second tier of international sides.

For Cricinfo’s coverage of the third match go here.