Congratulations to the England Cricket Team

 ... on their victory in the One-Day series in Australia.

After the Ashes series in which Australia played brilliantly and sadly managed to retake the Ashes in something close to a whitewash, many people will not have expecting that it would be some time before we were able to congratulate England's cricketers on any sort of series win against the Australians.

And they would have been wrong: an England victory in the one-day series is now certain as England won the third match today in what sounds like an immensely exciting match, which I will have to see if I can find time and a mechanism to watch. This means they have won all of the first three matches in the five-match series of one-day games and thus taken an unassailable 3:0 lead.

So yet again the "iron law" of English international cricket holds up - when England are doing really badly at test cricket our team carries all before them in the one day version of the game, while when England are winning test series against our strongest opponents we don't do as well in one-day matches. I cannot in my adult lifetime remember a season where England did really badly in both at the same time nor one in which we were winning everything in both at the same time.

Congratulations to our boys on what sounds like an epic and well-deserved win.

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