[Glice]

I think it's horrifically premature to say that we've lost it already. If you'll remember, we got raped in the first test last year.

The problem with the most recent test is that we had a great 4th day, we looked pretty confident at Pieterson wasn't letting Warne shit all of over us. We went to shit on the 5th day, probably thanks to the new ball, and our fielding hasn't been great - I'm hoping Monty pulls out the goods for the next test - but all is not lost yet. I'm hoping McGrath doesn't hold out for the whole series, he looked great during our first innings, but deteriorated towards the end. He's no spring chicken, and I suspect he's not going to continue giving us shit for the whole series.

I think we'll have a struggle on, to be fair to those convict bastards, they are looking pretty shit-hot, but we've done it before. I'm putting our first test performance down to nerves and acclimatisation.

I have to say, I was enormously impressed with the attitude of the Aussies, as I usually am. We've got the rivalry with them, but any appeals or close to dropped catches have been owned up to by the Aussies. There was one dropped catch, I think it was Warne, where it looked for all the world like he held on, but he straight away said he didn't, which wouldn't happen with Pakistan, for instance.

It's going to be a good series. The Aussies are proper sportsmen, they're not going to try and draw the next 4 tests, they'll want to beat us proper, and I'm sure we'll put up a valient effort to win.