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.
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.
There is nothing more disheartening as a group if you know from day one who is going to be in the Test side and who is making up the numbers.
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.
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.
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.
When a wired car is in the blind spot of one of GM's test Cadillacs, an icon of a car lights up in the side mirror.
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.
Batsman Paul Collingwood, who was drafted into the England side for the final Test in 2005 after an injury to bowler Simon Jones, was one of the MBE recipients.
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Having lost the one-day captaincy earlier in the year, there were those who were questioning his place in the Test side.
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One is whether it really does preserve the infection-control side of the immune system (which should be easy to test).
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