Australia’s Pura Cup final starts on Saturday and the Daily Telegraph reports Victoria will face a New South Wales squad worth more than A$6 million. Brett Lee, Michael Clarke, Stuart Clark and Nathan Bracken have returned while Phil Jaques, Brad Haddin, Stuart MacGill and Simon Katich will also be there. “The multi-million-dollar line-up would hold their own against the likes of England, New Zealand and the West Indies,” the paper said.

In the Sydney Morning Herald Andrew Stevenson writes about how Lee, Clark and Bracken have pushed out the bowlers who carried the team into the final.