"I'll be home by Sunday arvo darl." : Ponting

MMM I can smell it now. Just ten minutes before the toss of the first Test of the summer and already I can smell the sweet smell of success, mixed in with the hideous odour of a winging Kiwi nation having another thing to sook about. The only thing that will save the poor old Black Caps is rain, rain and more rain. And I do mean old. Is it just me or do the Kiwis seem to have the same line up that they have had for about the last ten years or so. Fleming, Cairns, McMillan McCullum, Vitori, Bond, Astle, Parore, Harris, Styris and Tuffey. These 'old nuts' seem to be the brains, back bone and every other organ that make up the Black Caps, except the heart of course, that has been MIA since the underarm incident (Ouch!).