Last Test: Day 1

When I left you yesterday Australia were 53-0. They were scoring but not too heavily and certainly not quickly. The conditions were cloudy and there was some swing but it was a slow old start. Lunch was looming and not a lot was happening when Tremlett made the first breakthrough - Hughes edged to the safe hands of Collingwood for 31. That was a big wicket.

The Aussie's plowed on after lunch and reached 105-1 before Bresnan struck. He forced Watson (45) into edging a shot to Strauss who took a pretty comfortable catch. Swann took out new boy Khawaja (the first Muslim to play for Australia) for a respectable and exciting 37. Clarke, ready to impress in his new role as Captain, will be mightily disappointed that he went out for a measly 4. The Aussie's finished the day on 134-4 which I'm pretty sure they were not happy with. Lets see what tonight brings...

Oh, and a quick word about Darts (again, I know). John 'Boy' Walton and Martin 'Wolfie' Adams played the best, most exciting darts game I've ever seen this evening. Wolfie won the sudden death leg and scraped through into the quarters. Sudden death in darts (in this round) means they've reached 3-3 (sets), 5-5 (legs). That's a whole lot of darts thrown, I can tell you. It was awesome - so awesome, in fact, that I'm watching the highlights of it right now even though I watched it in its entirety earlier.

TENNIS: Aussie Open count down has begun... 13 days, people, 13!!

I'll keep you blogged...