Great day for England it seems.

No doubt Ponting will be complaining about his dismissal

I disagree. I think the difference is that if lots of bowlers are bowling around 90 mph the batsmen acclimatise to it. If only a handful can hit that sort of speed (as was the case thirty years ago) there's more shock value. It was also a more brutal game in those days with protective headgear only just being introduced and no effective restrictions on the number of short deliveries permitted.

Lots of international 100 metres sprinters regularly clock under 10 seconds these days, whereas thirty years ago only a few could, and even then not every time they raced. The pace of the game in all codes of football is much faster and more relentless than thirty years ago. Watch old footage and players seem to be standing around or barely moving off the ball compared to now. Given the advances in nutrition, sports science etc. it's logical that fast bowlers are generally faster than in previous generations.

They showed highlights of the 1970 tour during the rain break. John Snow looked at least 5 mph faster than Onions and Broad.

Aussies looking fairly comfortable this morning.

12 more needed to avoid follow on, one wicket remaining. Come on England !!

Some absolute garbage being bowled by Broad this morning.

Looking at the weather conditions, and the effect on the batting conditions, it might not be a bad thing if we bat next anyway.

England are going to bat, follow on not enforced.

Strange decision IMO unless the pitch looks like it's going to be a Batsmans nightmare on the last couple of days...

Intermittent showers forecast for Sunday/Monday. Lots of disruption for those batsmen and plenty of movement in the pitch for the bowlers.