Vagueness preferred
I WAS very disappointed to hear about Shoaib Akhtar's omission from the Pakistan Twenty20 cricket team. Well, actually, I don't care whether he or any other player represents Pakistan in Twenty20 cricket, or if it substitutes an entire team of trapeze acrobats for that matter. However, finding out that the reason for his omission was genital warts was information I regard as excess to requirements, and probably only good news for someone on a stringent low-food-intake diet. "Done a groin" would have more or less covered it for me. For those who insist on increasing frankness in both sport coverage and information from teams, there's your belated "Be careful what you wish for" wake-up call right there. All we want to know about the trouser area of a cricket player is that it's covered during public appearances.
E. FLYNN, Hobart, Tasmania