It is one thing to lose a series to arguably the finest team ever to play Test cricket. It is something else entirely for England to give the impression that they don't even care. In the first two Tests, Nasser Hussain's mantra of "20 wickets, 20 wickets" was shown to be downright insolent as a pitifully exposed tail crumbled in all four innings. But in the absence of Andy Caddick, the one English bowler whose natural length is a Perth length, England defied every remaining ounce of logic. Instead of putting safety first and playing an extra batsman, they persisted with the hapless Craig White at No. 7, a man who has faced 46 balls from Glenn McGrath in this series, scored two runs and been dismissed three times. McGrath only got five balls at him today, before Brett Lee came on to put White out of his misery. England's decision had all the idiocy of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and none of the heroism. Andrew Miller

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