I'm back posting here again after an absence, kicking off with a series of random thoughts that are currently in my cricketing brain.

Michael Vaughan - Is he getting an easy ride with his batting form because he is Captain and hence has extra pressure, or is he getting an easy ride because he's Michael Vaughan and we love him unconditionally for duffing up the Aussies?

Robert Key - Is he firmly ensconced in a window booth at the Last Chance Saloon? And if not, why not?

Ian Bell - Whose bright idea was it to send him in at the end of the innings with orders to biff? Why wasn't he bowled?

"Right Areas" - surely this should not be plural?

Jacques Kallis - Poor mans Geoffrey Boycott with less charisma than that which lives in the great man's left foot?

Zimbabwe - The likes of Cremer, Chimambura, Masakadza, Panyangara and Mpofu have obvious natural talent, and it is a crying shame that they have been thrust into international cricket at an age where they should be worrying more about spots than their averages.

Zaheer Khan - Shockingly overrated?

Kevin Pietersen - Knocking the saffers about in a quick game of hit-and-giggle doesn't mean you won't get "Tresco'd" by Gillespie and McGrath.

Geraint Jones - Get some runs quickly, or you're out on your ear mate.