Four games, four losses

It can't last much longer. Australia were beaten by England overnight to give the "New Invincibles" four losses from four games. Steve Harmison and Kevin Pietersen were England's stars with 5-33 and 91 not out (from 65 balls) respectively. I caught some of the match on Sky and witnessed Paul Collingwood's blinding catch off Matthew Hayden. Hayden played a full-blooded upper-cut and Collingwood, in the gully, leapt well off the ground and caught the ball one handed high above his head. Brilliant, inspiring stuff.

I do have to say though - what on earth is up with English TV coverage? Do they really think those slow-motion replays in which you can't actually tell what is happening are cool? I only caught Ricky Ponting's dismissal in the replay and could only work out that he was given lbw because I couldn't see anything that resembled a bat amongst the swirling images of ball, grass, wicket and pad.

I also have some words of warning. The omens so far have been terrible for Australia. And a building scandal involving Shane Warne, a blonde and sex in a nightclub will only make things worse. But there is one thing in this world worse than a strutting, arrogant and victorious Australian team. And that is a strutting, arrogant and victorious English team.