The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Calcutta: Kapil Dev is of the opinion that Sachin Tendulkar should've had a couple of triple hundreds, at least (instead of a best of 248 not out in Tests); Michael Atherton believes Sachin is part of a protected/pampered species.
Danny Pugsley (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The idea of a Test championship appears to have become the topic de jour, with the respected writer Dileep Premachandran writing a piece in today's Guardian that follows on from Michael Atherton's recent piece in The Times. Whereas Atherton's piece was mainly concerned with how the format of such a championship would potentially work, Premachandran writes about how its introduction...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... David Gower's side lost 4-0, or perhaps 1993 when an England side led by Graham Gooch lost 4-1. Or Michael Atherton's plucky 3-2 losers four years on, or the 4-1 walloping dished out to Nasser Hussain and co as a new century dawned with a familiar story. Defeat, sooner or later, will become all but inevitable. Midway through the second Test, most of the nation will have switched off....
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
... need not rule himself out of captaining his country on the second criterion - fellow Lancastrian Michael Atherton did so in more than 50 Tests, as did Yorkshire's Michael Vaughan. However, the majority of England's 78 skippers so far have been batsmen, although all-rounders, such as Andrew Flintoff, have also been given the opportunity in the past.
