Phillip fillip

* More complaints about the new Australian opening batsman Phillip Hughes playing for Middlesex and learning all about English conditions ahead of the Ashes. Surely keen-eyed cricket people like Angus Fraser and Andrew Strauss - isn't he England captain? - will have learnt just as much about Hughes' strengths and weaknesses. That and the hiring of John Buchanan to give us a few tips is making me feel more comfortable about England's hopes of winning back the tiny urn.