Plagiarists Corner

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Well played Australia, bad luck England.

Face it Andy, luck had nothing to do with it - your guys were just not good enough. They've got necessary basic cricketing talent, and had Australia on the ropes more than once, but just didn't know how to respond when Australia fought their way back into the game, nor did England know how to respond when they were in a difficult position themselves. As Ian Botham said, the England players need to learn a thing or two about self-reliance; about digging deep to overcome those tricky situations.

In '05 Australia idenitified exactly those kinds of problems with their own game and worked hard on it to fix it before this series. England now need to do the same.

Hopefully they can learn quickly enough to win something in the one day series. They have a 20/20 match in which they can let their hair down in three days time before the first one-dayer of the series on Jan 9th.

Please do try and win something this time guys.