Six ways to make work for idle hands

"For the first time since Sydney, nearly four years ago, England are coping well in a Test match without Andrew Flintoff. Which makes you wonder how he will get on without them," writes Tim de Lisle in The Times. Here are six ways how Flintoff can spend his lay off.

1. Having tea with Sourav Ganguly: Relations have been frosty since Ganguly’s less than triumphant spell with Lancashire in 2000, which Flintoff said was “like having Prince Charles on your side”. Now the Prince is even more of a pauper at Northamptonshire (first-class average yesterday morning: 3.80) and he has been dethroned by India. So he might be chuffed to be asked for some advice. And he is well placed to give it as the last visiting Test captain not to get thumped in Australia.