Real cricket.

[El Gordo]

Clearly!

SIX NIL SIX NIL SIX NIL SIX NIL

Thing is, and it's honestly not sour grapes, no-one here gives a toss.
We're resigned to 7-0, but as Ponting - probably this week responsible for one of the finest run-outs ever seen in the history of ODIs - said, even a 7-0 shellacking won't make up fore the loss of the Little Urn.

Sad really, but there it is.
It's all Football, F1 shennanigans and Maradonna's earrings over here

Good luck tomorrow fella.

It's true -- the one dayers are barely mentioned on the sports news. Not because we're losing (in fact, it's only the extent of the loss that's starting to raise the public awareness of the series), but because it's seen as pretty irrelevant, particularly now that the football season is in full swing. A real shame, I reckon, and poor organisation. Do people agree that this would have had a quite different profile if it had come before the Ashes series? As a starter before the main course, it would have really whet the appetite. As it is, it's just vanished into the shadow of the bigger contest.

If the wipe-out helps Ponting to keep his job, I'll regard that as something positive to come out of the ODI series. As mentioned earlier in the cricket chat, I don't understand why there's been some antipathy towards the man over here. I think he's a good bloke and a good cricketer.