Peter Roebuck writes in the Sydney Morning Herald that naming the trophy in the Australia-Sri Lanka Test series after Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan was “a masterstroke”.

It was also important to bring these spinners together. Rivalry had set them apart. Warne had been graceless, pointing out the number of wickets Murali has taken against weak nations, as if the Tamil had arranged the fixture list. Sri Lanka's supporters had responded by pointing at the skeletons in Warne's cupboard. Australians cast aspersions about Murali's action. The Lankans put it down to jealousy. All the more reason to unite the opposing factions.

In the Australian, Malcolm Conn argues that the inclusion of Ben Hilfenhaus in Australia’s Test squad is actually good news for Stuart MacGill.

And in the Daily Telegraph, Jon Pierik looks at whether players signing autographs while fielding on the boundary is a distraction.