In the first Ashes test, Warne showed that he is still class, he keeps on developing new delievries, new ways to deliver old delevries, always creative and that is a sign of a great cricketer, I think thats where Muthia, Tendulkar fit in...being creative to bowl or to hit the ball...mind is engaged all the time, always thinking, and batting/bowling is then just an extension of the thouhgt..

Ponting is on a roll...he is an amazing batsman..consistent, technically correct, except with some spinners due to his high back lift...Langer is on a personal crusade (dad's army, which i think they still are) and Hayden is swallowing his pride everytime I see him on the field...he is a cook, must confess i am a foodie too and would be interested in what he cooks and eats. I have read he already has a cookbook out...hmmm

McGrath is old, but amazingly consistent...there was a lot a debate if it is his technical abiliyty to bowl or the mental ability to push himself, it cannot be either, it has to be a combination of both..but on pitches with no help he WILL look helpless, especially after the new ball shine is gone and people will take him for runs at will (Collingwood and KP showed that)

Where the hell Clarke has been all these years, what a bowler, his demenour reminds me of a friend of mine, Tom, this is my job, I am going to do it, and I dont care....