Come on in, Damien Martyn, your use-by date is up. And you too, Hayden. Don't you look away either, Kasprowicz.

It was just one awful day for Australia. Infredible. Ingeraintable even. Australia may yet get away with saving the Ashes, but we can already declare England the moral winners.

I'm going to leave the reportage to the only person who could possibly spot Shaun Tait's legacy, not with Lillee and Thomson, but with the immortal Pat Crawford. Here's Gideon Haigh's Ashes Diary on CricInfo, and his reports in the Guardian for Days One and Two.

Midwinter-Midwinters for Day Two: 3 pts - Andrew Flintoff; 2 pts - Geraint Jones; 1 pt - Matthew Hoggard.