Does Test cricket want to survive?

After a day when only 166 runs were scored, Peter Roebuck was so bored by the cricket that he thinks spectators ought to have been paid to watch. He writes in the Sun-Herald that the worst thing about all the accusations of defensive cricket this series is that they are true.

At the very time the five-day game is most vulnerable it has been treated with contempt. Cricket is not let down by snorting fast bowlers prone to occasional lapses but by the sort of tactics and tacticians prominent during this self-absorbed series. Far from nurturing a game they supposedly cherish, they have harmed it.

In the Times of India, Bobilli Vijay Kumar takes a different view. He praises Dhoni's tactic of packing the offside field and choking the runs by keeping the attack a foot outside off stump.

And in the Hindustan Times, Pradeep Magazine marvels at the new world-class stadium in Nagpur but is unhappy with the lack of effort to attract crowds to the Test.