Wild night for the Aussies? Hardly

Brett Lee lifts the lid on Australia’s subdued celebrations after the first Test in his News Ltd column.

Had our first Test celebrations been shown to the world, you might have been surprised by what you saw. Sure, there were a few cold beers being swilled in the dressing room but there were also players drinking Gatorade. Others were drinking water. Others interrupted their celebrations to get ice treatment on their sore spots.

Martin Johnson, appearing in The Age, says there’s a hint of Allan Border’s 1989 team in the current outfit.

When Border brought the 1989 Australians to England, Ian Chappell had told him to stop being matey with the opposition, and Border soon demonstrated that he'd digested this advice when Robin Smith was incapacitated by a blow to the midriff.

Michael Clarke tells the Sydney Morning Herald’s Trevor Marshallsea he’s happy with his batting, but would have liked more than his 56 in Brisbane.