I suppose three wickets lost in half an hour was a mini batting collapse of sorts. Perhaps England just want to keep their hands in! Being serious, it is hard to quibble with a day's play like that. In the first two tests, England got into positions from which they could reasonably have been expected to lose. Indeed, for most of my lifetime they would have. This England side is evidently very different. They battled and ultimately hammered the opposition in those games. This time they seem to have marked out their territory from the start. They are inflicting an uncommon amount of indignity on the world's (supposedly) best side.                  
My ignorance of cricket is admitedly immense, but I grew up hearing about how England were casually walloped by Australia, the West Indies and virtually anyone else from a warmer climate. Having to get used to a winning England cricket team at the age of 56 takes a bit of adjustment! Is it really true? Can it last?