Starts in half an hour. KP needs to stay measured but also needs to marshall the tail as best he can, a captain's innings if you will.
300 would be nice, 260 odd closer to reality if form is anything to go by.
C'mon England, let's see a bit of grit and determination, with no little application.
Losing the Ashes so tamely has been devastating, 5-Nil would be catastrophic.
Great work by Australia to add 40 for the last wicket this morning... Still, England have a 51-run lead in the first innings, and that's better than we've had all series by some distance. Now to back something of it in the second innings!
Well crikey. I left it at 65-1 when I did half wonder if Cook's exit would lead to a collapse, but I hoped that was just pessimism. Evidently not. Brilliant.
can't see what else Pietersen could have done, Hypo. He was down to his last two partners, who have so far scored 37 between them. The only chance of England getting more runs was to make them himself. He died trying.