I know that there's only pride to play for but I'm looking forward to this.

Hoping for a big score from one or more of the underperforming English batsmen.

Subquestion: do you think the toss should be abandoned in test series? England have won the game on all three occasions when they have won the toss. The only time they lost the toss, they avoided defeat because of the rain. I'd like some stats on the correlation between winning the toss and winning the game.

An alternative would be to give the home team three chances to choose whether to bat / bowl first, and the away team two chances.