Today England were fantastic. The bowled tight to great plans, the field settings were brilliantly conceived. They took every chance they were given and even made a bunch for themselves. Vaughan’s run out of Marto was particularly important. Marto barely bothered running figuring the chance of a direct hit was basically nil. As Psmith would say he mistook the impossible for the unlikely. Vaughan made the unlikely history, now Australia have to embrace their own version of the unlikely and make it fly from underground to the heights of the incredible. Even sans McGrath they have the personnel, but they need to lift, launch.

(Doesn’t Justin just love getting hit – we’ll need to see a lot more of that when Australia chase however sizeable a target in the second innings)