Things We Have Learnt from the Ashes So Far (Part Two)

• Cook must be loving this Ashes lark: after two Tests, though his average has plummeted from 302 to a measly 225, the young opener appears to be doing his best to grind my gloomy comments into the dust; the horrific 2009 series, in which a first innings 95 was the only score above 32, and he failed 5 times on a score of smaller than 11, is a distant memory.
• KP is back to his confident, nay, obnoxiously arrogant best: the wicket of Michael Clarke on the fourth evening was the unnecessary cherry on the cake of an English double-centurion who has finally banished the demons that have plagued him in recent years -- not only did he spend much of his 227 taking apart one Australian left-arm spinner, but the dismissal of Clarke, fittingly, saw him dismiss another.
• Swann is bowling like a match-winner: not that this is particularly unexpected, but I thought it was worthy of note, if only because I was very close to including something along the lines of 'Swanny needs to buck his ideas up' in my last post. Good job I decided not to, then.