I'm typing this blog from my hotel room in Brisbane and as I look out of the window, it's clear that a massive storm is about to hit the city. There's lightning flashing about like you wouldn't believe.
They are both fabulous players and if they can continue what they are doing for another couple of years then maybe they can get into that elite group. I'm sure they would say they want to be part of that list.
I've said before that Pietersen is the best and most exciting player that I've seen play for England and another big Ashes performance might just see him join the list of the greats.
Lagging behind
Like a number of the lads I've suffered with jet lag a fair bit this week.
It's a long journey to Australia - the last leg from Dubai and Abu Dhabi alone lasts 14 hours - so I've done quite a lot of sleeping in the last few days, but then I've been waking up at silly times as well.
There have been lots of cups of tea at 4 o'clock in the morning, plus a bit of early-morning Tweeting and a lot of reading. I've just finished Alex Ferguson's book (a terrific insight into management and I can identify with a lot of it) and I'm also reading the Tony Greig memoir called 'Love, War and Cricket', which was written by his 94-year-old mother Joyce and his son Mark. That's a brilliant book as well.
I've had a bit of fun with my new titanium knee in various airports on the way here. It's been setting off alarms all over the place and I damn near have to strip off every time I go through security. They keep pulling me to one side to wave those table tennis bats at me - and I've had dogs sniffing up my leg. They let me in eventually.
When we eventually got to Brisbane I went over the road to a pub-style restaurant with the Sky Sports production team and we must have looked like an undesirable crew because they asked us to pay for our food up front. They must have thought we were going to do a runner!
Anyway, we will all meet up for rehearsals at the ground on Wednesday and I'm looking forward to speaking to you all from the commentary box.
I've just looked out of my window again and the electric storm seems to have drifted away and a bit of sunshine is now appearing over the city. That's what you get in Brisbane!
