In The Australian, the ICC enjoys its right of reply to Malcolm Conn’s article that questioned whether ESPN Star Sports could afford the gigantic sum it offered for broadcasting rights.
"Both parties have met all obligations agreed when they signed the agreement in December and it is full steam ahead for both ESS and the ICC and any suggestion to the contrary is a lie, plain and simple," an ICC spokesman said.
Meanwhile, in the Herald Sun, Grant McArthur asks Simon O’Donnell how his battle with cancer 20 years ago affected him.
In November 1987, O'Donnell was still celebrating being part of Australia's first cricket World Cup win when he suffered severe aches and pains that were diagnosed as cancer. While he overcame it, O'Donnell said he still lives with knowledge and fear of it. "Cancer no longer is a death sentence, but it is a life sentence," he said. "Once you have experienced the trauma of being diagnosed, gone through the battles of treatment and come out the other end, it is firmly entrenched as a part of your life."
