Day one: It was Trescothick it was 2

Poor old Marcus likes being on the receiving end of a milestone, doesn't he? First he was Glenn McGrath's 500th Test wicket, now he is Shane Warne's 600th - and with the very same dismissal, Adam Gilchrist's 300th as wicketkeeper.

Aye, six hundred - when I were a lad you only needed 300 wickets for a world record. I can recall vivdly, back in February 1976, Ian Redpath getting out to Lance Gibbs at the MCG and then walking up the pitch to shake the Guyanese offie's hand for being his 308th Test victim, taking him one clear of Frederick Seward Trueman.

Almost six years later, Dennis Lillee pushed past Gibbs with wicket number 310. In those days, there were six Test entities. Now there are ten. It's not even eighteen months since Warne and Muralitharan broke the 500 mark almost in tandem in pursuit of Courtney Walsh's 519.

Seven hundred for Warne? It's hard to see why he couldn't keep playing till forty as long as he keeps away from the women and his mum's pill cabinet.

Oh, and Michael Vaughan scored 166 on Thursday. Adulation from Mike Selvey, Derek Pringle and James Lawton. Wisden CricInfo's pompously-titled Bulletin of the day's play by Jenny Thompson. (Hmm, so that's why they don't have a correspondent for the latter stages of the Hove Test.)

Midwinter-Midwinter points for Day One at Old Trafford: 3 pts - Michael Vaughan; 2 pts - Marcus Trescothick; 1 pt - Ian Bell.