If England were remotely prepared I'd be feeling quietly confident about this series but yet again we're horribly undercooked and I really fear for the batsmen who have yet to face any vaguely half decent bowling on this tour let alone Murali. Whereas whilst Sri Lanka may have been on the wrong end of a monumental pasting down under as warm ups for a series go you really can't beat a couple of tests against the best side in the world.

Plus the less said over the big battle for the final bowling berth between those metronomes Harmison and Anderson the better . Strangely I'm not reassured by Aggers' comments about Harmison bowling really well in the nets.

(Though on the brightside at least the Sri Lankan muppets...sorry selectors have done us a massive favour by going for walking wicket Mubarak over the in form Tharanga as Marvan's replacement)