Sarwan's injury opens a door

Brian Lara may have retired from international cricket but you can bet his name will come under consideration this week as the West Indies decide what to do about Ramnaresh Sarwan's shoulder injury, writes Simon Briggs in The Telegraph.

Also in The Telegraph, Martin Johnson says "No wonder England selected Ryan Sidebottom for this Test. When the chairman of selectors talked about the need to "add variety" to the attack, he wasn't so much talking about Sidebottom being a left-armer, as the fact that he was liable to confuse the West Indian batsmen by aiming the ball at the stumps."

"West Indies can cavil about their lack of preparation and the absence of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, they can carp about the wintry conditions and they can even reason that some of these tyros are being exposed too early to Test cricket but what cannot be excused is the poor attitude, which was slapdash to the point of carelessness," says Steve James in The Guardian.