There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.

We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!

I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.

The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for this one. It's just like the West Indies again; once their great names from the 1970s and 80s retired, the whole thing fell apart.

The way things are going, the next Ashes series cannot come too quickly for England. What a shame that we have to wait until 2013 to play this lot again.

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.