He is aiming high and immediately set the players the challenge to trying to match the standards set by Australia, the top rated side in Test and one-day cricket.

BBC: John Dyson

They are a spirited one-day and Twenty20 side, but three Test match victories in 10 years is not good enough - and Test cricket simply cannot afford to produce one-sided contests with Twenty20 cricket around.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

He hoped to stay in the team in both forms of the game but was never chosen for the one-day side again, although he remained in charge of the Test side and made a century against the West Indies in his first innings for 18 months in May 2007, and also made hundreds in home series against India and New Zealand.

BBC: Ashes hero Vaughan calls it quits

Pakistan were also without their regular skipper as Salman Butt was rested - one of six changes made from the side which lost to England in the second Test at Edgbaston.

BBC: Rain ends Pakistan wam-up game against Worcestershire

Sidebottom's last one-day international was against New Zealand at Lord's last June and he missed most of the Test series and all of the one-day series against South Africa with side injuries.

BBC: Sidebottom set to miss out again

It was a disappointing batting effort by the Rest, whose top six featured five Test players and Yuvraj Singh, a regular member of India's one-day side.

BBC: Virender Sehwag

Having lost the one-day captaincy earlier in the year, there were those who were questioning his place in the Test side.

BBC: Waugh pursues Indian ambition

One is whether it really does preserve the infection-control side of the immune system (which should be easy to test).

ECONOMIST: Transplant surgery

Until then, check a side-by-side test done by the cats over at Animation World Network pitting a prototype Alexa against a RED One equipped with a new MysteriumX sensor and software.

ENGADGET: ARRI Alexa joins RED to kill celluloid in 2010