More tributes for Chris Cairns

Newstalk ZB reports that, as usual, a cricketing event cannot happen without a comment from Shane Warne. There is something of the New Zealand press's little brother psyche coming out here, because the NZPA sought comment from another Australian, Steve Rixon, while Radio Sport's D'Arcy Waldegrave staged a painfully sycophantic interview with ABC commentator Jim Maxwell in which he desperately sought praise for Cairns. Do New Zealand commentators think that the New Zealand people won't believe them that Chris Cairns was any good unless we hear it from an Australian?

Elsewhere in the world, the Times looks at Cairn's retirement and sees an example for ageing cricketers everywhere - get out now before you start embarrassing yourselves.