Neil McKenzie is Mr Superstition

South Africa’s Neil McKenzie has ended his bizarre pre-game rituals and is ready to take on England, finds out Simon Wilde in the Sunday Times. Wilde questions McKenzie about his oddities, which range from taping bats to the ceiling to decreeing toilet seats be closed before he left the dressing room, and finds out that McKenzie is cured. There's also his views on South Africa's tour of England, which McKenzie feels "is going to be hard work".

In the Observer, Vic Marks says that for England's batsmen, the honeymoon is over. Because Dale Steyn and South Africa are in town. Marks traces Steyn's rise to stardom and finds a tearaway fast bowler just wanting to run in and bowl.

Steyn also chats to Stephen Brenkley in the Independent on Sunday.