'Do as I do', said Fred

Just how good is Andrew Flintoff as captain?

Derek Pringle in The Telegraph feels he is more a 'do as I do' skipper rather than a 'do as I say'. However, Pringle feels with the Ashes in mind, it would be better to have Michael Vaughan back, even with a bionic knee.

Mark Nicholas, also writing for The Telegraph, clamps down on Freddie's fetish for pace, and lends a humourous tinge to England's slip catching at Lord's, rather the lack of it.

Alastair Cook, who batted with extraordinary maturity in India and stepped into first slip as if to the manor born.Not so at third slip and then gully at Lord's, where he searched vainly for a hole in the estate to gobble him up.