A comprehensive test series win over the West Indies sets us up nicely for the rest of the summer, although I think its safe to say that we won’t get too ahead of ourselves. We showed that we lost the dull series in the Caribbean earlier in the year mainly due to the pitches out there which offered absolutely nothing and that we are in fact a much better test match side than Chris Gayle’s men.

49 or so days until the first Ashes test which will be the real test of the summer, and hopefully we’ll have some good weather and media buzz around it. We still have an ODI series and Twenty20 World Cup before then, which will give players like Bopara the opportunity to continue his good form, but aside from Flintoff’s recovery I reckon our test match side is probably sorted for the first test at the Swalec Stadium on July 8th (hopefullly Prior’s fingers will be ok after Collingwood had to take the gloves in the last test!)

The Aussie squad has been announced to some discontent down under – I’ll reflect on that in another post in the next week or so!