England missed Collingwood the bowler and the slip fielder

While England might not miss Paul Collingwood's runs this summer, they need to find someone to take those flying catches in the slips, and to bowl occasionally rewarding medium-pace, says David Lloyd in the Independent. The policy of playing only four bowlers also needs to be debated in the light of evidence from the Cardiff Test, he writes.

Collingwood probably dropped too many chances throughout the course of a long Test career to be mentioned in the same breath as South Africa's Jonty Rhodes when it comes to truly great fielders of the modern area. But he did hold any number of stupendous catches that left his team-mates open-mouthed in admiration.

Now, whether Collingwood would have held the two edges that flashed close to Alastair Cook – new filler of the third slip slot – is impossible to tell. Experience tells us, though, that he probably would have snaffled one of them, and quite possibly have reacted more quickly than Eoin Morgan did at point when a miscue landed fractionally short of him.

In the Daily Mail, Nasser Hussain writes that England have succeeded with a four-man attack largely due to the brilliance of Graeme Swann, but taking 20 wickets could get tougher during the winter. He hopes that England find a way to get Samit Patel into the side to improve the balance.