Yeah, I remember the 2nd test in England where Ponting sent the poms in basically just because of past history and what the locals said. Look what happened there! However, in this case, apparently the pitch is already looking very dry and cracked it's not even day 1.

The talk around today is that Martyn may go straight back in at number 4. As I said earlier, it would be a strange move to replace Hodge in the squad with Martyn if they weren't actually planning on giving him a game.