Anyone who STILL bleats that cricket - draws and all is boring after this series needs to be taken off and quietly knocked on the head. Either they have the intelligence of a newt or else they have an inferior concentration span. What's 5 days?

I hope so much that England win - as an Englishman living in Australia I can tell you that the braying of delight from the Australians will be quite dreadful - the fact that they will get a draw in the series at best, and that they were all sure of a 5/0 whitewash to Australia before the series will be quite forgotten!