I have read some ridiculous commentary on yesterday's play. Yes, it was the best day's play from the Aussies in around a year. Yes, England collapsed like a post-Hussey Aussie team. Yes, it was good to see big Mitchell and Nathan Lyon do well. But the match (let alone the series) is far from won. England have made a habit of bad starts to series in the last couple of years (5 first innings of the series under 200 since the beginning of 2012, none over 400), and they are just as adept at recovery. It was only a few months ago that at the end of the English first Innings the Aussies looked in a very good position. We lost that match, and despite some good positions in later matches, the series went 3-0 against us. Furthermore, last time we played on this ground, we took around a 220 run lead into the second innings (60 odd more than this time), and the Poms scored 1/517 in the second. Yesterday was encouraging, but let's not get over excited. There are 23 days left in the series, and the Aussies need to win most of them still. It will help if yesterday's effort was not just a once off.
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