When the Pakistan cricket scandal becomes more important than its devastating floods...

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But reading yesterday's papers made me think again of the floods, which have covered an area larger than England, affected more than 20 million people, decimated Pakistan's all-important agricultural sector, and dwarfed every other crisis that has befallen Pakistan in the last few years. I thought of the floods precisely because of the blanket coverage given to the cricket scandal – front pages, commentary pieces, editorials, sports pages. To me, they offered a sharp reminder that the floods have never received the degree of coverage commensurate with their seriousness, and now have been almost entirely wiped off the news agenda – except when given a sentence or two in a story about Pakistani cricket. Full story...

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