Mitchell Johnson dropped for Adelaide: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 249347.stm "I was a little out of form in the last Test."

Mitchell Johnson dropped for Adelaide: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 249347.stm "I was a little out of form in the last Test."

Had a couple of good nights sleep, ready for more cricket now, just hope the rain does not spoil it!

Speculation that Shazad might play, can't see it myself!

Aussies bring Harris and Bollinger in for Johnson and Hilfenhaus, England team not confirmed but likely to be unchanged.

What a start! Aussies 0-1!

0-2

Strewth!

We'll be batting by tea!

Can they make it to double figures?

2-3, maybe lunch?

If we can get Hussey early then Oz are in all sorts of trouble

If Hussey goes cheap, maybe drinks!

Magical start! Great fielding by Trott and a catch by Swann to get rid of Ponting. Anderson is bowling really well, unlucky wih that lbw shout.

Watson and Hussey beginning to rebuild things for the Aussies now, we need to get one of them before lunch.

Good fightback from these two 94-3 at lunch.

94/3 at lunch, these two have steadied the ship.

Finn has struggled, the drop off in the standard of our bowling from Anderson and Broad with a new ball to Finn with an older one is pretty big.

Hopefully we can get stuck into them a bit at the start of the afternoon session.

Great day with the ball from England. We need to get a decent lead in now and this match is ours.

The Aussies are seriously rattled. Ponting and Haddin still seemed a bit peeved with the Harris lbw and at the end of play and got into a bit of a conversation with Strauss. The Aussies have more problems than a dodgy lbw decision to one of their tail enders. Could this be a sign of deeper issues here???

Loved seeing that ponce moan at the end of the days play, thats how you can tell we are on top

Let's hope so! I didn't see the Harris decision, but I was listening to the radio commentary at the time. Even Justin Langer admitted there was no reason for the third umpire to overturn the original decision as the ball would have just hit leg stump and the "hotspot" gauge didn't indicate he got any bat on it. Not sure why they should have a bone to pick with Strauss for appealling for a dismissal that, at worst, was clearly possibly correct.

Only worry so far is that Finn seems to be conceding runs too quickly.

Great day for England, 245 on that pitch is a great effort.

One or two areas for concern though. Firstly Finn, still not convinced by him, far too expensive but he is picking up wickets which is saving him right now. Also Broad, his figure look great but he is wasting the new ball by bowling too wide, a lot of his deliveries are just let go by the batsmen so there is a lot of pressure on Anderson. Still as a unit we skittled them for 245 so not all bad.

The other thing is the pitch, it did a bit today so we really need to score big in our first innings as batting last could be a real mindfield.

Harris nicked it with the back of his bat, only slightly and it just about showed up on hotspot but not enough to overturn the decision.

Good toss to lose perhaps!

The aussies were miffed by the Harris decision because, unless Harris is in the wrong profession and should be an actor, he was clearly absolutely convinced he'd nicked it. But there was never any legitimate reason for over turning it and no reason whatsoever for blaming Strauss.

I cant see the aussies getting that many in their 2nd innings if they have to bat on the 4th or 5th day, so a strong batting performance should put us in the driving seat.