"At some point the fork in the path appears before every sportsman

"India must rethink its fifty-over team," says Peter Roebuck in the Hindu

"The glint in his eye betrays the flecks in his hair

"The South African cricket team are not a bunch of chokers

"There will be very few, if any, changes to the [England] side at the Oval," says Vic Marks in The Observer

Yanked from pillar to post by their ludicrous itinerary, England's cricketers are playing from memory, on auto pilot, rather than with real zest and focus, writes Simon Hughes in The Telegraph .

"The most memorable image of perhaps the most brilliant era of Indian cricket," says Rahul Bhattacharya in The Guardian , "is of a half-naked man on a handsome terracotta balcony

Mathew Sinclair feels like a bloke who has fallen off the back of an ocean liner and been thrown a lifebelt, writes David Leggat in The New Zealand Herald .

No longer can Indian touring teams be regarded as pushovers on bouncy tracks

Spectators watching Worcestershire play Warwickshire in England's county championship very likely had the privilege of seeing a cricket feat performed for the last time, writes Huw Richards in The International Herald Tribune

Coming out of the last Test match at Old Trafford, although we lost, there were a lot of positives that we could take from that match

"I am pleased to hear that Bob [Woolmer] was not murdered," writes Inzamam-ul-Haq in The Telegraph

One of the main features of England's win at Headingley was the successful resurrection of the horses-for-courses policy that saw Ryan Sidebottom take eight wickets on his old stomping ground, says Derek Pringle in The Daily Telegraph .

Brian Viner speaks to Michael Holding in The Independent .

Allan Donald, who is going to be England's bowling consultant for the next five weeks, speaks to Donald McRae in The Guardian .