Recorded Delivery
samporn
Hope isn't dead. They haven't been totally outclassed here. In many ways Australia were lucky yesterday – there were plenty of mishit shots, but mostly they landed safe, and those that didn't were largely hopelessly fumbled by clueless fieldsmen (one of the ways they were lucky, in other words, is that they were only playing England, but still there's an alternate universe somewhere where they were all out for 350-odd). Maybe the green will rub in an English direction today. A day spent admiring a few bat-flapping centurions and absolutely no red-faced dressing-room-bound fools would make everything look a great deal brighter.