Good news for England and bad news for Australia

The good news for England Cricket is that no one's going to get injured playing on day 4 at the MCG. That's, of course, because it took only 3 days for Australia to thrash them. The bad news for Australia Cricket is that they have to give 100,000 day 4 ticket-holders their money back.

Other than that, things look pretty bleak for the visitors and quite sweet for the hosts. England now has an investigation to do, as well, since they had bowling plans leak out. At least they HAD plans for the bowling. I'm not sure there were any batting plans to leak.

The other bad news for England cricket is that my hero Monty Panesar did not even come close to winning BBC Sport Personality of the Year. Apparently they gave the award to the Queen's granddaughter for winning some equestrian thing. Sounds like the deck was stacked against Monty, but what really hurt was not being a part of any England team that won a match since August. Of course there were not many wins in those matches where he was left out, either - just a couple ODI wins against Pakistan, and one win in the ICC Champions. At least he's the odds-on favorite for Beard of the Year.