more bundled up than usual.

Which was welcome news to Rod Slyhoff, president and CEO of the Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce, organizer of the annual peppery fete.

"Even with the cool weather and rain, we've been really busy," Slyhoff said. "A lot of people, and people seem to be enjoying themselves.

"So as long as people are happy, I'm happy."

Down on Grand Avenue across from the Vail Hotel, the heart of "chile row," business was brisk even as a few raindrops continued to fall.

"Business has been great," said Chris Thompson, one of a crew of 15 men and women handling the heavy traffic at the DiTimaso Farms stand. "The rain hasn't hurt us so far. People are out getting Pueblo Chile and enjoying it."

Thompson said he and his colleagues handMorgan ready to step up

It would have seemed scarcely believable only a couple of weeks ago but England go into the fourth ODI in Dubai on Tuesday with an excellent chance of securing a 4-0 whitewash over Pakistan.

It would complete a remarkable turnaround from a side that, coming into the series, were all but written off by most observers. After all, England's failure to adapt to conditions in the UAE had just condemned them to a 3-0 Test series loss and they had a poor record in ODIs outside the UK and in Asia in particular. Their subsequent success has been quite unexpected.

It has not been undeserved, though. While Pakistan, back to their mercurial best and worst, have offered surprising little resistance, the nucleus of an England side