Jonathan Agnew

David, we appreciate it.

We've got to let you go.

Thank you so much for joining us on today's podcast.

And we just have to hope for some kind of a miracle tomorrow.

Cheers, David.

Right, so...

Let's go back to the way England batted.

I felt that they kind of got the tempo sort of right up to a point, but then Australia, Glenn, bowled so much better than England.

So we were thinking that this was a pitch that was a good one and that was run-soaked.

And yesterday was a bit of a false dawn for England because Australia gifted quite a lot of wickets.

England didn't gift many wickets.

We've talked about Ollie Pope.

He did.

We will talk about Jamie Smith.

He did.

But for the most part, there was diligence in England's approach, but there was brilliance from Australia's bowlers.

But actually, the way Crawley got out was a lovely bit of bowling.

The way Brooke got out is a lovely bit of bowling.

So how is it that an Australian can come into the side?

three months after playing his last game and look as if he has been well prepared and has played four or five games he's a good bowler well this is my point because he's a world class bowler Australia might just dare we say it just be better I mean you look at the number of wickets that are out there