Cardiff Teas Cost Us

Ah look guys, a lot has been made of my comments last night, but it's not the reason we lost the Test. Sure, I wasn't impressed with England's tactics late in the day, but at the same time I wasn't impressed with the Cardiff teas. Five days in a row we had to endure cheese and onion sandwiches, hula-hoops and battenberg cake. It's always gonna be a tough challenge to take twenty wickets on that sort of diet. Unfortunately, we fell just short.

I don't think the quality of battenberg was particularly good for a Test Match venue, no. And I don't think another Test Match should be held here until that's sorted out. It's no secret that the Poms prefer fairy cakes so for the ECB to provide us with stodgy battenberg was pretty bad form actually. You just have to look at the height of Mitchell Johnson's bowling arm in the final session to see how much it was weighing him down. If it had been any lower he would have been called the 'New Trevor Chappell'. I don't want to make a big thing out of it, but I am sure others will be taking this up with the England hierarchy. As they should. All I'll say is that I didn't feel it was in the spirit of cricket teas. But they can do what they want. We'll always provide them with Milo and vegemite.

But look, we've got to concentrate on the positives, of which there were many. We'll walk away very proud of what we have achieved here. We've proved a lot to ourselves and know we can overcome most types of hula-hoop. Many members of the English press doubted we could do this without Warney so that's a big confidence boost for the likes of Nathan Hauritz. We'll just have to be a bit more careful when it comes to cake in future. Maybe take the marzipan off or something. We'll take a look at that in the next twenty-four hours and reassess where we are at. The good thing for us is that it's Lord's next and we haven't had a bad cricket tea there since 1934.

Until next time. Waltz like Matilda.