This is the best we've got
Ricky Ponting writes in the Daily Mail that there is no point clamouring for some star to appear from outside the Australian tour party while Merv Hughes says in All Out Cricket it's not the batsman who are to blame.
"Let's get one thing clear. Australia cannot flick a switch and suddenly everything will be all right. We are not going to have a big group of young promising players all coming through to make things better. There are no better players outside this group who could come to the rescue but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of talent in this Australia team. It is just that many of them are having to find their feet in the biggest series of them all."
"I still don't think we're performing particularly well as a bowling unit. Ryan Harris was a huge positive at Lord's and all the bowlers are bowling some good balls at stages but we're not putting England's batsmen under constant pressure. Is Jackson Bird going to come into the equation? I think he should."