Merry Christmas to all

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Well you would like to hope that the bowlers will respond after such a great job by the batsmen to turn the situation around, so I'd tip an England win. They should be used to winning by now, so they know they can do it.

And it turned out to be just another day at the office for the Aussies, beating Pakistan by 9 wickets in less than 4 days again. Best sign for Pakistan was the young leggie Danish Kaneria, who bowled really well and is an aggressive little bloke who was at 'em the whole time. Took 5-for in the first innings and bowled like he believed they could win the game even when there were only a handful of runs to get with 9 wickets in hand. Good on him.