Beating England and India in 3 tests and drawing one out of the four played is an immense result. The only other team in the world that could pull that off is Australia. The defeat in Australia still stings, mostly for the manner of defeat since I thought that we would be up against it, but in some ways it was just a perfect storm of us being very underprepared, overly loyal in some selections, and with inopportune injuries to key players. Add to that a super-pumped and motivated full strength Aussie team, and realistically the writing was on the wall.
We've got a pretty good chance to be in the hunt for the top two in the Test championship with the test series coming up in the next 12 months, I just hope we don't get too distracted with the T20 World Cup coming up later in the year too.