The blasts coincided with the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura - the most important day in the Shia calendar and marked with a public holiday in Afghanistan.
It has been emphatically England's day and Cook and Pietersen have batted superbly. We all expected India to go through England but they haven't had that success. They will have to look back on the lines and lengths that they bowled and come back strongly on a fresh day tomorrow.
In February this year, he was again admitted to a Johannesburg hospital because of abdominal pains. He was released the following day after tests revealed nothing serious.