Jamaica (West Indies), Feb. 9 : England cricket team coach Andy Flower has said that he is ready to wield the axe on under-performing players in the wake of the First Test defeat against the West Indies.

"International cricket is about dealing with pressure. Batting in that second innings was a pressure situation and we did not handle it. We imploded. It has happened too often to us. But we will learn from it and come out stronger for the second Test in Antigua on Friday," Flower was quoted, as saying.

London, Feb. 9 : Captain Andrew Strauss has been ordered to get a grip on England before they completely fall apart.

The Sun quoted former skipper Graham Gooch as saying: "You've got to give massive credit to the West Indies for turning in a fantastic performance.

"But there are a lot of things to be concerned about with English cricket - not least the fact that England haven't got a steady hand on the tiller," he added.

Gooch was speaking after England lost its first Test to the West Indies at Jamaica's Sabina Park by an innings and 23 runs.

Sydney, Feb. 9 : New South Wales batting tyro David Warner has been dropped from the Australian one-day side for the final two matches of the five-game series against New Zealand.

The 22-year-old left-hander paid the price for a string of low scores by being axed from the 13-man squad for matches in Adelaide on Tuesday and Brisbane on Friday.

Ponting said it was up to Warner to go back to state cricket and challenge again for a spot in the national side.

"I think he was picked in our one-day squad on the back of a couple of unbelievable innings for NSW and that magnificent 89 he made in the Twenty20 (against South Africa) down in Melbourne," Ponting said.

Jamaica (West Indies), Feb. 9: Nobody is smiling now in the England cricket camp in the wake of the humiliating innings and 23 run loss that the team suffered against the West Indies in the first Test played at Jamaica's Sabina Park.

According to The Sun, the destruction of Andrew Strauss and his team is evidence of a performance that was "disgraceful, embarrassing and pathetic."

The tabloid report says that England has had far too many setbacks recently for the state of the sport to be ignored.

Karachi, Feb 9: A parliamentary committee on sports will probe on Monday the falling standards of Pakistani cricket and the controversy behind the resignation of the PCB's director general Jeved Miandad.

The committee has summoned team management, former director general Javed Miandad and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials for the meeting in capital Islamabad.

Pakistan suffered their heaviest one-day defeat by 234 runs against Sri Lanka in the series-deciding one-day match in Lahore last month, The News reported.

Lucknow, Feb 9 : Former Indian cricket captain and all-rounder Kapil Dev has shared his sportive spirit by playing cricket with blind children here and on the sidelines of the game opines that Indian cricket is all set to reach new heights.

"I hope that the future of Indian medium pacers will be good. I hope that Indian cricket will be touching new heights," said Kapil Dev.

Visually challenged cricketers enjoyed the game with Kapil Dev amidst them on the pitch.