Still recovering. The 5th Test was marvellous, enjoyed every minute, every sound of bat on willow, superb. Though I'm pleased the England team won, I would have accepted defeat as several Aussie played magnificently, Shane Warne is a terrific player, he handles those cricket balls as if they were part of his arm, a magnificent bowler to watch, sheer poetry in motion and he seemed to be an unofficial Australian captain!
Whilst it's true Pieterson dropped catches he made up for errors, he is a good sportsman as indeed are the rest of the team. Probably Ian Bell the most disappointing player but then it's a game and these things happen. Vaughan an excellent captain, showed leadership, good field positions most of the time. Strauss again he showed he was a capable player, Flintoff brilliant, Harmison, Hoggard also marvellous players. Ashley Giles superb peformance, his 59 runs brilliant, Geraint Jones well he always does his best. Collingwood couldn't really replace Simon Jones but then who could? Credit also belongs to Duncan Fletcher, now a UK citizen and a most welcome citizen. No doubt all the other backroom boys and girls who also in their own way backed up the team.
It was marvellous cricket absolutely marvellous. I will miss Richie Benaud's commentories, he now joins the audio library with John Arlott, ah those were the days!
However, Channel 4
has demonstrated to me that it is not a worthy broadcaster of cricket it cared little for cricket viewers on the days when racing was on - by leaving its viewers lost many terrestrial viewers could not tune in to Film 4. At least cricket will be in Sky Sports safe hands
in the future.