Some might consider me selfish, but I'll be away from the telly till about 2pm, so a bit of early rain would do me fine.
Nah. Obviously we can't know what would have happened if they hadn't declared, but it's not unreasonable to think that they would have had a little bit more fun before being bowled out. Let's say they scored another 36, being bowled out to end the day's play, bit like in 2005, then Aus made the same number of runs from the start of day 2 with all their wickets as they made - so that score minus 14. You've added 50 to England's lead without taking any time out of the game at all. Alternatively, maybe they just had one over more fun, scored another dozen then lost a wicket. Aus come out to bat with three overs left, survive scoring eight, say. You've added 20 to England's lead without taking any time out. Alternatively, those two could have kept going for a while, adding another 100. Stranger things have happened. England score 500 and get themselves a big first innings lead.
3 an over, the Aussies to lose.
