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What a difference from the doom and gloom 'England are useless and an embarrassment etc.' at the beginning of this thread! Brilliant win, which should give plenty of confidence for the rest of the summer for a number or reasons, not least pulling it back from such a shit start.

A tie then, as we're always shit at lords. Anyway, I was going away from my original point about how you can hardly call the England team arrogant when this summer's schedule was probably organised 2 years ago around the time England were in the process of winning their 3rd straight Ashes series.

I bet we win this 3 match series.

Money and games people want to watch, either at the ground or on telly, and follow ball by ball on the radio. Give the punters what they want. As for standard, it's cyclical. I don't know when this summer's tests were arranged, but it wouldn't surprise me if it had been pencilled in 2 years...

Maybe it's because England is one of the few countries that can guarantee not only selling out the first 4 days of a 5-6 match series, but will also guarantee good TV money as well, particularly for an Ashes series. It would be moronic to ignore this potential income, even though England only...