Shows how little confidence Strauss has in his batsmen to chase a total!.

Yeah, because recent history really fills everybody else with that confidence. Sack Strauss.

Dont normally comment on here

But to not enforce a follow on in cricket is absolutley crazy

Sport is all about pressure , the more pressure you can exert on your opponents the more chance you have of winning

The Aussies confidence is low , so why give them the opportunity to build it back up

They will slow the over rate down as much as they can , and with some bad wheather in the next couple of days we have just thrown away the chance to win

Madness

England have taken the gamble to build up a quick, unassailable lead in order to declare early...ish. Going to plan at the moment but about to stop for lunch. Could upset the rythym that.

What will create more pressure?

Putting the Aussies back in now on a pitch doing little in very good weather conditions for batting, or using those conditions for ourselves and putting them back into bat with an unattainable target having to bat in weather conditions that are helping the bowlers (as predicted for the next two days)?

This only becomes a bad decision if our batsmen flop, they shouldn't in these conditions, though it is England.

Wot he said.

Worthy of the BBC TMS blog !

What would Ponting have done ?

Whinged

50 up already, if we don't do anything daft we should be able to clock up a 500 plus lead by stumps.

Aussies turn to spin....

As Botham said , we have a habit of not declaring early enough

At what score do you declare ?