T1D3: Australia 602-9d (Ponting 196) & 181-1 (Langer 88*) v England 157 (Bell 50, McGrath 6-50)

Some days, it's better staying in bed with the radio off.

Hard to find any plus points about day 3 - the one bright spot has to be Bell's fifty, which considering he was a practical non-participant with the bat last summer, can only be a good thing. Kind of a shame no-one else was around to support him.

The other intriguing thing? Ponting didn't enforce the follow-on. Why? I can't see England winning if he did. In fact, the only /small/ chance England have is if Australia bat on too long tomorrow, and they manage to get their act considerably more together than it was in the first innings.

Somehow, though, I can't see it. Ponting probably just wanted to rub England's noses in it even more than he already has :)