Irrespective of the result in the decisive Test match in Napier, Michael Vaughan and his wildly erratic party have major questions to answer when they return to this country this week.Read
England have squared the three-match series in Wellington and so approach the final Test on Good Friday in Napier with the fate of the tour dependent upon the outcome.Read
England's dire performance in the first Test in Hamilton confirmed that Michael Vaughan and his cosily centrally-contracted cricketers have lost the ability to think for themselves.Read
If Kerry Packer's World Series revolution 31 years ago was a ripple in international waters, Lalit Modi's Indian Premier League is an unstoppable tidal wave.Read
Successful sporting teams learn more about themselves in defeat than victory — in New Zealand last week England brushed off humiliating thrashings in Wellington and Hamilton by bouncing back to normality in Auckland.Read
The International Cricket Council completely flunked its biggest test with the craven handling of the Harbhajan Singh verbal spat with Andrew Symonds and other Australians in the Sydney Test in early January.Read
Rarely can a brutal batsman be said to grace the game but that is what Adam Gilchrist has done prior to riding off into an Indian sunset to pocket £400,000 for joining the India Premier League Twenty20 in April.Read