Torturous opening

It's early days for Phil Mustard, of course, and all followers of English cricket are by now, surely, sick of seeing 'keepers chopped and changed so indelicately (although I, personally, was delighted to see both Geraint Jones and, in particular, that witless chunterer Prior dropped), but England's OD side desperately needs someone to fill, or at least, part-fill Trescothick's boots at the the top of the order

Cook is batting wonderfully well - the failure in today's victory is a mere blip for a good player developing into a very fine one - but he needs a bit of a hand. I've no objection to there being a biffer at the top of the order, but it's just not happened for anybody since Trescothick's self-imposed exile (to which nobody can have any exception, sad loss though he is to international cricket)

Mustard will, hopefully, come good but has been little more than execrable thus far in this series, stupidly getting himself run out cheaply (the 7th England run out of this series, the morons) today after previous failures with the bat in this series - a premature introduction to international cricket can, as his captain at Durham forewarned, 'crucify you'