'They are defrauding the paying public!' - Your Letters: July 17

Indian wicketkeeper goes off field 'too injured' to keep wicketkeeper on day one of third test match. Day 2, a miracle, he doesn't field all day then comes out to bat. If he's fit enough to bat he's fit enough to field. That is puzzler one.

Now for other ones. After 10 overs with second new ball the ball has 'lost' shape or isn't doing what fielding side want, then after another eight overs that ball is changed. Why? Couldn't be because England are scoring a few runs could it and India not bowling England out cheaply?

Next puzzler: why are umpires - and authorities - allowing fielding teams to bowl only 12 overs an hour? They are defrauding the paying public - many of whom are paying £150-180 each for a 'day's entertainment'.

Answers please.

Michael Gough, Wombourne

SO FED UP WITH SPORT ON THE TV

I'm really pleased that sports fans are getting a blanket coverage of the sport they love.

But I have to ask why do the TV programmers believe we are all lovers of sport? 

Every terrestrial channel is presently showing only sport. Normal programmes for none sport fans disrupted for coverage of sport, everywhere is sport.

If sport is that popular with broadcasters and a good money earner, why not have channels on terrestrial TV that are purely for sport fans, this would then leave the ones that do not want to be bombarded with sport with their everyday viewing routine and leave viewers with a choice of what they want to see because presently when sport is on, I turn the telly off.

Pete Lowe, Brierley Hill

RAIL LINE FOR US NOT A PRIORITY

Whilst many open access rail services are operating or in the pipeline (at least one running on the West Coast Main Line) at no cost in subsidy to the taxpayer, WSWMR's application that would have restored a direct London link to the capital, has 'hit the buffers'. Attempts to get funding for two mothballed railways in the county have long since stalled, so it's not surprising that this latest attempt to drag Shropshire into the 21st century, has failed, too.

We are simply irrelevant in the political scheme of things which is why we struggle to provide even basic bus services. I think we need to get some of those decision makers from Network Rail, the Dept. of Transport, the ORR out of their comfortable niches in London and invite them to tour the county by public transport... that's assuming they get to Birmingham without mishap.

Mike Crump, Bridgnorth

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