McGrath mellows as retirement approaches

AAP’s Greg Buckle talks to Glenn McGrath about his career as it continues to wind down. He finds the “peaceful veteran” has mellowed.

"With everything that has happened at home with Jane and having two kids, it does put a different perspective on things and you work out what's important in life. I think just natural progression has helped me there.''

Peter FitzSimons asks in his Sydney Morning Herald column if there’s ever been a more boring tournament in the history of the world? Philip Derriman follows the theme in the same paper.

In The Australian Jon Pierik writes India have confirmed their status as the game’s most powerful country by cutting Australia out of a one-day series in Ireland.