Swine Flu and all that.

[Sweder]

To borrow the antipodean vernacular, bugger me

What a morning; yesterday the wicket looked pancake-flat and benign, this morning it's full of demons, crackerjack balls leaping wildly at every turn. Onions set the pace with two on-the-money jaggers first up. Flintoff failed to fire but Jimmy seems to have picked up the gauntlet with figures of 4 for 11 from his morning's work.

It remains to be seen how England's batsmen get on of course but I'm guessing Ponting and in particular Hussey will be kicking a few crushed Red Bull cans around the dressing room this lunchtime.