How weird is it being confident that an english ODI side can win the game especially against the convicts

Very, but a) England are a pretty good one day side right now and b) the Aussies are pretty weak, as someone has said, no names that scare you at present. May be very different come the winter down under.

I just hope we are not peaking too soon. The main time to be playing well, and despite the poor opposition we are playing particularly well, is next year in the World Cup. It would be great to have the one day double.

England need 23 from 39 balls with 4 wickets left, doing their best to throw it away at the moment, must have been watching the footballers!.

Yikes, big stutter now 198/7 15 needed off 30.

Handled the pressure well. Least one England side is doing well, even if the Aussies are a bit of a shadow of the team we expect.

The batting line up just goes on forever in this current england side. Broad in @ 10 is a superb weapon to have

England have finally assembled a very good one day side and a key part of this is the depth of the batting...
I know its going back a few years but it reminds me of the side that reached the World Cup final in 1992..That one day side's batting went right down to the 9th or 10th man...

We've managed to break the opening partnership quite early this time around, lets see if we can do Ponting early as well

Damn, just like the old days

The major difference between the two national sporting psyches was on show yesterday IMO.

England, with the series in the bag, played poorly and lacked concentration.

Australia on the other hand played probably their best cricket of the series. Had England been in their shoes I doubt we would have seen a similar performance somehow.