England Cricket Has Reassuringly Returned to Normal
By England 102 & 82-5, Australia 445 all out.
This is carnage. England are toast. This test ends tomorrow, two days early, likely Australia winning by an innings. Creeping into the tail, I don’t see how England will make up the 261 runs they are down to force Australia to return to bat for the five minutes it would take them to win.
32, 30, 0, 3, 4 is the score line for the first five batsmen, all now out.
Look for Bopara to be dropped, he contributed one entire run in his two innings. However, without Pietersen, and now Flintoff looking unlikely, who to replace Bopara with?
This is looking a lot more like 2006/07 series than the 2005 series.
