Completely agree. The summer test that was rained off should have been Australia's and that was very bad luck. The final test, ultimately, was a fair draw, but had England won - a real possibility if the umpires had not decided that dark had fallen - it would have been an incredibly unfair result (and, to be fair, Cook admitted it). Clarke played his hand very sportingly, for the spectators, and it would have been a very unkind fate. On balance the England team played better - Bell was the only consistently good player - but not by all that much.

That's part of the reason I'm more inclined to suspect an English collapse than an Australian transformation. It's much easier to collapse than transform over a three-month period.