Stuart Broad's petulance doesn't taint his character

"I would hesitate before making judgments about Stuart Broad on the back of his behaviour in the last Test, when he threw the ball at Zulqarnain Haider in his follow through. Broad was responding to frustration, not pressure," writes Duncan Fletcher in the Guardian.

There is no doubt he was in the wrong. He made two mistakes. Firstly, it was clear he had no intention of hitting the stumps with his throw. Secondly, he reacted badly. He should have said sorry sincerely. Instead he offered only a cursory apology, as though he felt it was just a necessary gesture he had to make. As a coach I do not think the situation calls for anything other than a quick, quiet chat with him, over breakfast or at one side of the next net session. You do not need to call a meeting or take a headmaster's approach, lecturing the player about how you never want to see them doing that kind of thing again. These are grown people after all.

As the reaction to Stuart Broad and Saeed Ajmal proved, there are as many different understandings of the spirit of cricket as there are people who play and watch the game, writes Andy Bull in The Spin.

In the Daily Mail, Nasser Hussain says the England selectors should tell struggling opening batsman Alastair Cook that his Test spot is on the line.

The work Cook has put in on his technique with Graham Gooch seemed to have worked in South Africa and Bangladesh during the winter. His alignment, head position and foot movements were pretty good. But that all seems to have gone now and he has all sorts of concerns again.

Writing in the Independent, Stephen Brenkley says Cook's form is one of a few issues England need to sort out before making the trip to Australia for the Ashes.