How about "promising"? Sure, Strauss and Collingwood have lost form... but we knew that before this game and form can come back as quickly as it goes if a player can just be given a break... but Bell apparently played beautifully.. and with Bell and Joyce at the crease and the score at 70/2 off 15 overs the game was off to an excellent start.

Flintoff's been in good nick lately, DAlrymple was out to a superb delivery and none of the others who batted are any more than fringe players anyway! Flintoff then returned 3-1-4-0... Tremlett did even better, doing enough to nail his place in the WI... Dalrymple did no wrong.. and Panesar showed that he should also be in the final squad.

So what if Loye, Nixon and Plunkett bombed: they are ODI novices who probably shouldn't be in Australia anyway!