Lawyers are "encouraged that there's a prosecutor at the helm, not a bureaucrat, " said Stuart Meissner, a former Wall Street prosecutor now in private practice.
He certainly exposed a weakness in Philip Hughes, who was roughed up in both his brief innings - but with Andrew Flintoff back in the team, England have the firepower (remember as well how Stuart Broad dealt with Ramnaresh Sarwan at Chester-le-Street?) and they need James Anderson's ability to swing the ball.