Today..

Thank goodness a cricket-loving prime minister with a proper sense of right and wrong has at last taken a stand on Zimbabwe.

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Give this group of intelligent former Test cricketers the brief to conceive a World Cup tournament worthy of the name and you'd bet your last rupee they would pull it off. Allow them to explore and apply technology for the benefit of umpires - rather than just for the television viewer. Encourage them to investigate unfair deliveries in a clear, unthreatened light. Let them guide the development of Bangladesh and go on to tell us what can be reasonably expected of the world's finest players in an age where television and money overpowers good sense in the planning of their schedules. In other words, allow them to run the show without aspiration to invest in it.

Mark Nich0las.

Australia have secured the outcome sought by the England and Wales Cricket Board three years ago - federal government intervention resulting in the cancellation of an unpalatable tour of Zimbabwe.

Alex Brown.

Had it taken a decision to boycott the tour, not only would CA have faced millions of dollars in fines and compensation claims, it would have put offside the all-powerful Afro-Asian bloc, particularly India and South Africa.

Malcolm Conn

New venue for NCA

India enter Tamim-territory, and the left-hander is eager to prove a point in a game which is not as pointless as it seems