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Let's make one thing very clear - England's minds were not on the game against [b]Victoria[/b] at the MCG. If being forced to play in such a meaningless fixture was irksome enough for the players, then for the watching members of the press it was simply tortuous. Such was the farcical nature of the game that Andrew Strauss managed to take a wicket with a rather unique brand of bowling, while part-time trundler Eoin Morgan was smashed for 22 off a single over. Perhaps the fact that there was more of a buzz surrounding tomorrow's big match in Perth between the Australian journalists and their English counterparts shows that the game in Melbourne was unimportant in the extreme. All eyes are on Perth and on the WACA in particular, with Australia needing to avoid defeat to keep the ...