I'm not sure Alan.

England certainly are playing as a team, getting the best from each player and as you have commented, not letting their heads drop when things are not going their way. These have to be positives.

On the other hand, I'm not so sure about our opposition (although with a line up of Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman - I'd say India on paper have a pretty good top batting lineup) and to what extent we are really playing good sides.

Maybe I'm just giving good old English negativity here but I'd have difficulty considering us in the same league as the West Indies or Australia when they were so dominant.

But time will tell and I believe there is hope.