War stops play
Patrick Kidd, in his blog in the Times , revisits the summer of 1939 when the Second World War brought the West Indies tour of England to an abrupt end
We are fortunate not to live in such dark days. While every death in Afghanistan is a disaster for the families of the fallen, the fact that 200 fatalities in a campaign is seen as outrageous rather than 200 in one hour shows how far we have come. There is little threat to cricket from conflict - save in Pakistan -and for that we should be grateful.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo