Johnson, Hilfenhaus and Siddle chipped in with 11 wickets in the first test victory over the Windies.

Knowing that fact alone, Australia should have lost,b ut, and perhaps this has to do with the inept state of the opposition, Australia still won by an innings and change.

The other 9 wickets were picked up by Hauritz (5 wickets without having to do much work), Watson (3 who picked his up with filth and guile) and laughably Michael Hussey (1 charity).

These weren’t just tail end wickets, Hauritz cleaned up the tail in the first innings, but their wickets included the 3 top scorers for the Windies (Dowlin, Barath and Ramdin), and Bravo and Nash were also victims in the top order.

Gayle and Chanderpaul never managed to go out to this powerful threesome, but only because they never lasted that long, even though they used three referrals between them.

The Windies bowling impressed in this test, in their one chance, but their batsmen are still yet to arrive. The rest of the test series is probably not going to be pretty.

This test was sort of like you beating up your little brother after you’ve been beaten up by a kid your size, it feels good for a little while, but it doesn’t make you forget you got your ass kicked.

At least one of the Windies little boys had some fight in him, bringing up a hundred on debut as a teenager while your team is 145 runs after following on. That is a sensational effort, even if it does make all your team mates look like inebriate fools.

Well done Adrian Barath, and great maternal work from Ramdin in dishing out the hug.

Check out Jarrod’s book, ashes 09: when freddie became jesus.