Dawid Malan

I think it was.

I think if you're batting on day two at Adelaide, it tends to be a little bit of a turn at Adelaide.

But generally later in the game, you have everything in your favour.

Hot day, Pat Cummins just coming back from a long injury layoff.

So you have a lot going in your favour.

And I think England would be extremely disappointed to have finished the day as they did.

Well, I think he's got an uphill battle there in front of him, Oli Pope.

He's had a lot of chances.

He's been back for a hell of a long time.

And he has, in that time, played some exceptional innings.

He has scored some phenomenal hundreds for England that everyone has looked at and gone, there is the player that you are.

unfortunately he's not done it consistently enough in between and I think if you look at the shot today he'd be the most disappointed with that it's a good wicket as we said earlier good day to bat and he's just gifted Nathan Lyon just the simplest of dismissals and when you're playing test cricket you know you're going to be facing the best bowlers you're going to be under pressure and scrutiny and you're going to be

getting good balls in your career.

And the last thing you want to do is just to be gifting an off-spin as such a simple wicket as that.

And especially in a crucial time in the game, you've just lost a wicket before and then suddenly you're giving momentum back to Australians.

And as you said, Ben Duckett loses his wicket and that's over as well.

And suddenly you go from a really strong position to three down and you're facing the hardest battle you can.

It was, and there's been a lot of criticism over the way he starts in the past, and it's justifiably so when you watch how he goes about it.

It almost looks to me as if he's so desperate to score runs and he's trying so hard to get himself a start that he's just hanging, he's battered everything, and he's too frantic in the way he wants to go about scoring.

Batting is about finding your tempo, so not a tempo that anyone else thinks you should be batting at, but you should find the tempo that works for you, how your feet move, how you want to score, where you want to look to score, what your game plan is.