Vaughan feels the pressure

After Michael Vaughan’s poor run with the bat continued, Richard Hobson writes in the Times that Vaughan’s place is under scrutiny for the first time since he took over as captain.

The selectors have to judge whether Vaughan is merely suffering a blip in form or whether he is an ageing player whose best days are behind him, with a knee that is increasingly restrictive. A new man needs time to rebuild a side in his own image. Tours to the sub-continent are a good place for squads to bond and it just happens that England’s next Test trip takes them to India.

After the ebbs and flows of the first three days, Geoff Boycott says in the Telegraph that the match has been a fantastic advert for Tests and that Twenty20 can’t possibly be more thrilling than this.

In the Guardian, Lawrence Booth writes on Mark Boucher’s burning desire to win and lauds the wicketkeeper’s shepherding of the tail.