Aussie top order batsmen find form

One of the positives of the recently concluded 4 day warm up match between Australia and Somerset, at Taunton, is that the Australian top order managed to make good starts and get decent scores, thus ensuring a comfortable victory for the Aussies over the english domestic side. Usman Khawaja and Philip Hughes made fluent half centuries whereas Ed Cowan squandered a confident start. Play resumed on the final day with Khawaja and Cowan making runs very efficiently. Lady Luck too seemed to be favouring them as whenever they edged the ball, it always penetrated the slip cordon.
Cowan who didn't trouble the scorers much in the first innings seemed to be in prime forming, driving and punching with panache, before he was very unexpectedly dismissed. He raced to 46 in 89 balls (which is actually a decent paced innings in Test matches) before he was dismissed edging the ball to Alex Barrow off the bowling of Gemaal Hussain (who dismissed him for the second time in the match), when he tried to bring up his half century with a boundary. This continues the string of good starts that Cowan has made in First Class matches without converting them into big scores. The last time he scored a first class hundred was when Australia played South Africa in Brisbane last summer
Khawaja who didn't do much in the first innings (27 runs), seemed to be in complete control in this innings, rotating the strike very regularly and putting away that occassional bad ball to the boundary, before he was dismissed for a well made 73, caught by Trescothick off the bowling of Dockrell.
Hughes walked out at number three and he started off very positively, which included a huge six over mid wicket off the bowling of  George Dockrell. Hughes balanced hits to boundary with plenty of singles, while at the other end Khawaja brought up his half century. Hughes seemed to be carrying on from where he had left on the first innings (a well made, undefeated 76), before he was dismissed for 50 (of 90 balls), bowled by Dockrell, giving him his second wicket of the innings. He finished with 3 for 78, picking up his third wicket by dismissing Michael Clarke for 26, when Australia needed less than 60 runs for their victory.
Brad Haddin walked into bat after the dismissal of Hughes and played a confident, aggressive innings and scored 52* from just 40 balls. His innings was filled with eight shots to the fence and two above the fence. He brought up the winning runs with a six off the bowling of Dockrell.
A well made 90 by Watson in the first innings, one good start each by Cowan and Khawaja, two well made half centuries by Hughes, two decent starts by Clarke and by Haddin! These innings might seem enough to take the Aussies to victory against Somerset (obviously because their bowling came into place too), but their batsmen need to do much more if they have to give any trouble to the bowlers of the England Cricket team, who in favouring home conditions have been almost unplayable.
-S N