Osman Samiuddin, writing for the National, anticipates much change on both batting and bowling fronts, especially in Test cricket. The bowlers, he says, might come to the forefront once more, after the glut of runs in recent years.

[Venkatesh] Prasad, now an Indian Premier League (IPL) coach, noted his greatest challenge with bowlers was ensuring that their thinking - that eight runs conceded in an over, with one boundary, wasn't bad - was not embedded when they moved to different formats. It is the unsaid flip side of this that is our concern here, of batsmen who feel invincible because they hit more boundaries than ever before but actually become more vulnerable precisely because of that ...