Ben Dorries attempts a look at the lives of Lara, Tendulkar and Ponting in The Courier-Mail.

Three cricketing worlds collided for a few precious moments in exotic Malaysia as modern-day greats Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar chewed the fat in a rare get-together. The private lives of the world's three top batsmen – with 30,766 Test runs between them – could not be more different away from their glossy magazine ads and rich endorsement deals.

AAP's Daniel Brettig writes about Ponting's planned team approach in the early overs of today's game against India.