Getting lost against Lara

Stuart MacGill tells The Australian’s Malcolm Conn about the day he “lost his way” bowling to Brian Lara. “I didn't really know what to do so I was at the top of my mark just hoping I would survive the next delivery.”

Michael Hussey is preparing for the second Test after the first was “a real blur initially”. He is interviewed by Trevor Marshallsea in the Sydney Morning Herald and says: “I was doing well, I felt like I was preparing well, and then they sang that bloody national anthem and I couldn't feel my legs after that."

Two Tests into the Australian summer and there are already whispers about the lack of challenge provided by West Indies. Brendan McArdle writes in The Age the cricket calendar is “already flat”.