The first test match between India and England commenced yesterday. The starting time on East Coast is 11:30 pm. Clearly perfect to actually be able to watch the entire day's play but very inconvenient seeing that cricket viewing is not the only item on the daily agenda.

India lost the toss and England chose to bat, the day ended at 245/7. A thoroughly professional performance on what was a highly benign surface. This team slowly but surely is coming to embody its leader; Rahul Dravid. Professional is the word that best epitomizes Dravid.

I expect India to deliver a bug victory here.