Much as I sympathise with Ali Martin’s bold scheme to reclaim cricket’s place on live terrestrial TV by pooling the rights to each year’s Lord’s Test (The Martin Plan, 28 August), I think it’s sadly unrealistic. I have an alternative. You publish yet another picture (30 August) of the current England XI warming up for a Test match by playing football. So I’d like you to soon print a picture of the England football team warming up for an international by playing cricket. That would certainly give the game back the credibility it deserves.
Piers Burton-Page
Buriton, Hampshire
• Good to see the Guardian including a preview of the Women’s World Cup crunch match (Sport, 31 August). Less good to see that coverage of the Wales v England tie focused entirely on England. Just to confirm, it’s a match between two UK teams. And you’re a paper for whom, exactly?
Anne Cowper
Swansea
• Phillip Inman (30 August) points to the obvious need to make sure the boom in land values benefits public services rather than encouraging land hoarding. The Liberal party adopted the policy of taxing land values in 1889. Some policies may take longer than others to be accepted but surely 129 years and counting is a little excessive.
Michael Meadowcroft
Leeds
• There must be a general election coming up. Michael Caine, “Southwark’s favourite son”, threatens to leave the country in the event of a Labour victory (Interview, 31 August). Could he and the usual suspects please stick to this promise when the time comes?
Mick Jope
Maidstone, Kent
• And the government still expects us to believe HS2 will be delivered on time and on budget (Row as Crossrail line is delayed until 2019, 1 September)?
Pete Lavender
Arnold, Nottinghamshire
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