I am eating humble pie...

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With England's 3-1 triumph over Australia today - including 3 innings-defeats for Australia - and am forced to conclude that the current England selectors might, perhaps, know their job better than I do...

I am delighted by the success of Anderson and Tremlett - two of my favourite bowlers, very pleasantly surprised/ amazed by Cook's phenomenal success (which solves the problem of the next captain), impressed by Bresnan's improvement - and astonished that England did all this without bucketloads of wickets from Swann.

I am stunned by England's brand new capacity to post huge first innings totals - this looks like something new under the sun. I feel it may have something to do with the example of Trott.

Sadly, I was correct about Collingwood's problems being due to old age rather than loss of form - but clearly his presence in the side was very valuable nonetheless.

I would award at least 51% of the credit to Andy Flower, whose integrity, ability to make and stick-by tough decisions, and wisdom place him high among the current (admittedly feeble) leaders on this planet.

Happy days!

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