50 for Barry Gallons, unbeaten 30 odd from Bairstow.

Expect Stokes to be picked at six for Adelaide then.

Never lets anybody down...but is always favourite to miss out to more fashionable players.

That's why Poms will never be good at sports.
You're all such delicate little flowers.

There are some very ordinary articles being written about the Adelaide test.
Every article I read is about how Adelaide is a dead wicket where guys like Siddle will have to do a mountain of work or a spinner like Swann could be a match winner, but all these 'journalists' must be aware that Adelaide is going to have a drop in pitch for the first time, and drop in pitches just aren't the typical flat tracks that Adelaide is famous for. I suppose they have to write something, but it's like they have just looked up what was written about previous Adelaide tests and rehashed it, ignoring the reality of the changed circumstances.

Drop-ins tend to be either one extreme or the other though. Very rarely do they turn out to be pitches conducive to 5th day results.

Either they're a bit shoddy and a nightmare to bat on, or they're a road and a nightmare to bowl on.

Maybe.... maybe we're not actually that good any more.

500+ to get and Root and Pietersen play shots like that.
Might as well surrender right now.
No balls and not prepared to graft.
Despite a mini revival England are dreadful.
Losers!

Extra.....
I rose to find we were all out for 170+.
A tail of six batsmen who don't muster a handful between them and Johnson creaming himself in delight.
It's a shambles and complete humiliation
Man up or ship out.

Mitch Johnson is on fire.
17 wickets at an average of about 8 so far, and he gets to bowl at Perth next week.
He could turn to crap at any time though. He is the most hot and cold bowler in the game.

I don't understand the shot selection in the slightest. Cook gets out to one going over his head - just duck out of the bloody way!

One day, English batsmen will learn how to bat properly again.

And once again we let the Aussies off the hook after a great start. Where's the ability to finish a team off gone? Dreading tomorrow.

If we aren't batting in the morning session, this game is over!!

We are fooking useless at bowling, field placing and catching.
We let the opposition play the same shots in the same gaps and never close them and the bowling, tailor made to put through the covers or pull.
Terrible!
5-0
Can't even win a toss ..... they are toss!

If I am any judge it won't take much more for England to give in.
Mice.

And another thing the sight of Root all rigged up in a helmet ducking and cringing like a coward before he even sees where the pull shot is going makes my blood boil.
Would a kitted up Aussie do that?
Mouse!

Lehman has really turned the Aussie side around.

Micky Arthur was the worst coach possible for Australia. He actually dropped our best allrounder for not writing an essay he had given them for homework.

Lehman has got them being aggressive and told them to enjoy themselves.

The turnaround since Arthur was sacked has been massive. It took 3 or 4 tests to get back to a more natural Australian style, but it's great to see.

Siddle owns Pietersen ... pathetic!

106 degrees in the old money.
That should be fun.

Meh. Four of six series still ain't bad.

Nothing like looking to the past.

On a personal note there comes a point were anger is replaced by contempt and then comedy.

I'm enjoying it more now as I view it as some bizarre comedy.
Try it, it's just a mindset.
It's really funny the worse it gets.

Cook is like a rabbit in headlights, he's as proactive as the captain of the Titanic.

Not for the first time, I found myself exclaiming this morning "Pietersen, you insufferable imbecile!"

Just give them the urn now and come home for Christmas, save the embarrassment of a 5-0 whitewash!

Indeed. Ridiculous shot. Bell not much better, either. No need to be aggressive all the time, especially when you're severely on the back foot.

Just think, a few more sensible innings like Stoke's and we'd be looking fairly comfortable.

They are already doing it but when it is 3-0 I can see the Aussies really tearing into the English attack like one day stuff and compound the humiliation.
It may backfire if they do, but there is always such as Haddin to bail them out if it does.
It's the Aussie psyche ...attack!

It's a funny series.
It's not a particularly strong Australian side, and the English side does look pretty strong on paper, but it's like they have no fight in them.
Hopefully they show up and make a game of it in Sydney and Melbourne.

Meh, I can't remember being as apathetic about an Ashes series. The Ashes have become stale, and the poor standard of the cricket has taken some of the shine off it as well. The Aussies deserve it, but I'm not sure anyone in England really cares.

Swann is retiring from all cricket - rats off the sinking ship.