Men against boys

Yuvraj’s ton rates among one of India’s greatest in ODIs, says R Mohan in the Deccan Chronicle.

A princely Yuvraj brought out so eloquently that when a batsman is in his pomp everything else can be made to seem irrelevant — the pitch, the match situation, the opposing bowling. His century on Monday was one of the great hundreds of the limited-overs game, all the more lustrous as it came on a sluggish surface that batsmen hate the most in the one-day arena. It should rate among the top 10 by an Indian batsman.

Andrew Flintoff was wearing an increasingly haunted look after his side went 3-0 down in a series that is beginning to feel like men against boys, writes Lawrence Booth in The Guardian.

There are many things wrong with England's one-day side, now 3-0 down in the series, but the biggest worry is what is happening to Andrew Flintoff, writes Simon Briggs in the Daily Telegraph.

Honeymoon reaches an abrupt end for Flintoff, feels Richard Hobson in the Times.