4th Ashes Test underway

I hardly had time to comment on the Aussie blowout in the 3rd Ashes test, and time zones being what they are, the critical 4th has already started Down Under. In the last one, after taking a promising start, England's batting collapsed in the first innings, partly due to some masterful bowling from a Wild Thing-like bowler named Mitchell Johnson.

So it's 1-1, and they are underway on Boxing Day in Melbourne. And according to the Daily Mail report, Australia went out in their first innings for a shocking 98 -- unheard of in Test cricket where a middling score is 250-300 or so. So England is really set up to keep the Ashes urn -- unless they have a similar batting capitulation.

Tune in tomorrow (or it is it yesterday)?

Day 1 report: Ashes Live