Brisbane, Day 2:

23.4 4 52 9

Tessa went for a training run on the common yesterday and so was too tired to watch. I did, for better or worse. Entertaining cricket for the most part, McGrath was on fire and Ponting will now try to beat Yousuf for number of times out in the 190's this year. The tourists are exactly where they expected to be when they shuffled out to bat. It appears to me they regard teamwork as patting each other on the back regardless rather than first doing their very best. I think Warne sees his mission to take 20 wickets and then score a century and a nurse, a team hug would be pretty far down his list. The only man knighted for cricket while playing it had as his first aim winning a car as man of the series.