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....and Washbrook and Cowdrey and Edrich and Close and Steele....who were all brought back in to tough it out. Not to give it away. To play properly. To know which balls to leave and which to play. To occupy the crease and frustrate the bowlers. Something our batsmen singularly fail to do.

Lyth, I'm afraid is not good enough. Physically, he is small and although some Test openers have been small ( Hanif / Gavaskar etc ) he is a million miles from that class. The big Aussie bowlers will overpower and bully him. He has to go. Ballance is all over the place technically and at this...

Spot on. In short, Broad is chicken and lacks guts. He won't brave it out. He doesn't like short-pitched rising at the body stuff and takes his eyes off it and turns his back on it. Thats why he gets hit on the helmet so often. He flays away and tries to get quick runs and is happy to walk off...

No one with any common sense or decent cricket experience was getting carried away with the result in Cardiff. This England squad has had a fragility about it for some time and has regularly crumbled under pressure. The abject surrender down under still leaves underlying scars and too many of...

Sadly, no surprise. The fragility of this England team is alarming. All Cardiff and all that hasty triumphalism did was to stir up the Aussies, who knew they had underperformed and knew that that was as good as England would get. Any sign of hostility and we just crumble. Lyth is like a little...