Start the healing in India

Greg Baum says in the Age international cricket must resume in India as soon as is decently and sensibly possible.

At a wretched time such as India is now enduring, sport has a role to play. It did after after World War II in England, it did after the tsunami in Sri Lanka and it does now. It was not cricket's fault that the bullets and bombs rained down in Mumbai, but cricket can help to begin the process of soothing and rebuilding. India needs to play cricket now and it needs the world to play with it.

In the Daily Telegraph Iain Payten also looks at the situation in India.

Leonard McDonnell, a freelance writer at the Sydney Morning Herald, asks is it any wonder that Test cricket is dying in today's remote-controlled, fast-paced, multi-channelled age of jump cuts, mouse clicks, and mobile media?