England's Tour of Australia - Ashes, ODIs and T20s 13/14

would you ever slag anyone off if you were in his position?

Lots of sports people dish the dirt after they have finished their playing careers but it usually happens a few years afterwards, when they write their autobiography not in the middle of a tour when the side needs everyone to pull together.

And no if i had something to say, i would say it to their faces and not use thinly veiled hints.

fair enough

England have called up Borthwick & Tredwell into the Test Squad.Tredwell will not arrive in time for the Boxing Day Test,Borthwick has been out in Australia playing cricket.Both could be in with a chance for the Sydney Test as a 2nd spinner to Monty.

What's with the get at Kevin Pieterson interviews last night.
Pressure was put on him to announce his retirement and to answer accusations that it was him who Graham Swann said was 'to far up his own arse'.

With the loss of two of the established side it's the last thing we need is to lose another top batsman. This series he's not been troubled by the Aussie bowling, its just he's played a whole raft of bad shots. He's not past it, he just needs to be reigned in.

Well I'll be tuning in tomorrow night. Hope springs eternal! Maybe Cook can do the decent thing and give us a good start by winning the toss this time.

If Australia win the series 5-0 they will move above England into 3rd place in the Test Rankings.Reason enough to fight in the last 2 Tests.
David Lloyd came up with an interesting slant,saying that if you take the back-to-back series as a 10 match challenge,it currently stands at 3-3 with 2 to go.

(24-12-2013 15:34 )Glenn Miller Wrote:  Maybe Cook can do the decent thing and give us a good start by winning the toss this time.

He should stick with calling heads and hope that this match ends the tails run of 3 in a row.

KP said he will not chance his risk-taking batting style after being criticized for giving his wicket away.Fair enough when the batting line-up is firing,but he must show more responsibility.If he is our most talented batsmen he has to deliver on a more consistent basis.It's not enough to come off 1 in every 10 knocks.

It looks like Matt Prior has been rested and Johnny Bairstow is set to play.
Monty looks like playing as the replacement to Graham Swann

And it started to rain