Sympathy for the Aussies? No Chance

Personally wouldn't enforce f/o. Give the bowlers a rest in this heat

Oops, it's not just Aussies that are crap batsmen.
Three cheap wickets for about thirty BOTH innings for England.
Pathetic.

Can you get us out of the clag again Bell?
It's your job to graft and be responsible while we just dick about.

The day began with two Yorkies at the crease digging England out of the mire. It ended in similar style, with a nice little knock from Bell in the middle of it.

Am I right in saying that Bresnan would have top scored in the Australian innings, and has more runs combined in this match than Cook and Pietersen?

We do what the great Aussie teams of the last 20 years did. When 1 or 2 or even 3 of the batsmen fail, others step up to the mark. KP, Captain Cook and Matty Prior will all have a decent knock at some point in the series.

That's what makes us the best batting side in world cricket right now.....

Here we go again then. Suggestion that Warner will come back at six with Steve Smith at five. Blimey. He was six places too high at six...

Some "interesting" use of bowling changes this session by Cook.

Bresnan makes the breakthrough, but only gets five overs. Swann takes a wicket in his second over and is immediately withdrawn from the attack.

Meanwhile, Anderson and Broad look as threatening as an Andrex puppy but continue to get the ball thrown in their direction.

Sounds like Khawaja got another Dharmasena special. Given out caught behind on the field, no evidence on hot spot or audio that he actually hit it, decision stands. If there's no evidence he hit it, then surely the only correct decision is not out?!

He did, a real horror show. Terrible initial decision, worse third umpire decision. Totally sawn off. Warne, rightly, fuming on commentary. Funny.

Tricky pitch. Not going to be many lbws with it so bouncy. Even session at 92/2.

You can have as much technology, as many gadgets, gizmos and gimmicks you like, it doesn't prevent incompetence.

I thought video refs were poor in rugby league. There's been some clangers in this series so far.

Nice to see the Aussies turn up finally though even if I do want the 5 0 hiding.

Rain in Manc. Who'd have thunk it? It's high time that such precipitous areas were avoided when the schedulers plan Test matches.