Come on Jonesy

Good to see this article in which Simon Jones says he's going to try to become number one in the world within a year. He was fantastic during the Ashes series, a bowler transformed. Previously, he had always looked a little one dimensional, I thought. Suddenly he had an inswinger, an outswinger, using either conventional or reverse swing, depending on the state of the ball. One of his main competitors for the number one spot must be Flintoff, whose transformation has been almost as sudden. If Harmison can rediscover the form that took him to the number one spot, and Hoggard can continue to improve, England are going to have a pretty special pace attack (if they can all stay fit). They already do. If only the batting line up could match them...
So Ganguly has been dropped, finally. It was bizarre, how the government intervened (or at least, I think they did) to get him a recall. Why do the Indian people like him so much? I respect him for how he brought a tough, winning sensibility to his Indian teams, and how he pissed off Steve Waugh, but at the same time, he seems quite amazingly selfish (Chappell's comments about him only seemed to confirm what I already suspected).
Good to see a few wickets fall on the first day of the Test in Pakistan. Lots of runs are being scored too. Perhaps there will be a result in this one.