personally id move pieterson to bat at 3 and bopara down to 4 drop panesar and broad and bring in onions and harmison

0ni0ns and harmi for broad and m0nty thats fair. I d0nt thnk they guna includE harmi. Bu bopara is in d form of hz lyf. BelL had the chance ta pRove, in dat ausies v eng li0ns match,he failed. I thInk bopara is beter than bell. May be its d nervez playing. ONce he gets that confidence,we cn expect biG scores frm the new england number 3.

was a great test apart from Johnson. He was s**te.

im not bitter panesar had figures of something like 2 for 160 for the entire test match plus botham hussain and atherton said on the tv coverage that england only picked two spinners for the first test because the pitch was a turner and england thought spin would bring australia undone which turned out to be wrong as we had 4 batsmen make tons, they also said next test one of them has to go

trav is right johnson was useless and mathews mcgill and marto were making excuses for him saying johnson has personal issues with his mother atm, professional sportmen should be able to put stuff like that aside come game time

englands squad is cook strauss bopara bell pieterson collingwood broad prior flintoff swann harmison onions panesar for the 2nd test at lords

it could just be england playing mind games but news reports say flintoff has a knee injury and may miss the 2nd test

i forgot anderson in englands squad

Ok. 2nd Test from today at lords

australian team unchanged but england is waiting until the last minute to announce their team

smart move by england and flintoff to announce his retirement right b4 the 2nd test as it might lift his team mates to play better knowing flintoff only has a max of 4 test matches left

They anouncing it late due to injurys not because they r smart

they surely know by now if harmison is in and panesar is out and how could someone recover from an injury with the test starting in 5hrs time if they werent fit enough just 12hrs ago?

plus i never stated england were smart announcing their team at the last minute dare i say it but learn how to read mate

im going out on a lim and saying england will only make one change to their team england team will be strauss cook bopara pieterson collingwood broad prior flintoff swann anderson harmison with panesar as 12th man

points of note australia hasnt lost a test at lords since 1934 and in pontings 2 tests at lords he is yet to score a century

eng won the toss and batted eng o for 5 after 3

think onions is in and panesar out