Usman Khawaja Backs Australia to Win Ashes

England will be without James Anderson at Trent Bridge after their all-time leading wicket-taker suffered a side injury at Edgbaston.

These though were rare highlights, and while Australia s occasional waywardness at Lord s was masked by the fact that they had already put a commanding 566 first-innings runs on the scoreboard it was a different story at Edgbaston.

“Credit has to go to England“.

“We probably didn’t bat anywhere near where we’d like”.

And given the best way fortunes have swung over the primary three matches on this collection, it might not be a serious shock to see Clarke notching his twenty ninth check century to lead his aspect to a thumping victory.

With opener Chris Rogers bowing out after this series, they will be looking at batsmen such as Cameron Bancroft, Usman Khawaja and Joe Burns, who are now touring India with the A side.

Haddin asked to be stood down for the second test at Lord’s because his daughter was sick and was not recalled for the match at Edgbaston. I know there’s been the family-first policy.

Maxwell reckons Clarke could fall on his sword and walk away if Australia fails to comeback from the 2-1 series deficit.

Australia were in danger of crashing to an innings defeat at one point with Warner being a lone ranger with his aggressive batting as wickets tumbled around him. Discernibly tentative at the crease, Clarke has struggled to confront the pumped English pace attack.

“I think [a target] of 180, 200 would have given us a chance. We had to be better than what we were”, he added ahead of next week’s fourth Test across the Midlands at Trent Bridge.

“Get back to playing the way we want to play“. “As a batter your primary reason is to score runs”, said Cook. Clarke will drop down to five where he has had most of his success, scoring 20 hundreds at an average of 61.83 compared to 30.89 at No.4.

Still, Clarke himself admitted that his ninety four runs from six innings at a mean of 18.eighty within the Ashes collection up to now meant Australia had successfully been enjoying with 10 males. In the first innings, Clarke was cleaned by a yorker after being pushed back into the crease with back of length deliveries hitting the splice of his bat.

“The form at No 4 certainly concerns me!”

“It is time for the captain to get off the plane and turn up”.

“That’s the plan for the next Test”.

Clarke said, “Statistically I have performed a lot better at No. 5 than No. 4”.

Known for his simple approach, Clarke praised the England bowling unit for having executed their plans well at him throughout the series. “It’s always been about my preparation”. If you give him a white ball he seems to knock everyone over but he’s not doing a consistent job in Test cricket at the moment.

“That’s been the formula throughout my career”.

“Credit to England, I thought they bowled really well”.

And that is, who else would come into the side?

Although the official family period is over on this Ashes tour – during the first two tests there was a second team bus being operated, such were the number of partners and children accompanying players and staff, all paid for by Cricket Australia – there remain some families still on tour paying their own way.