to take your hat off to wood and roberts for the way they hold today. it is their first in the field since early september and for those who haven t done it let me tell you it is a painful excellence. robinson went off with grant, stokes hurt his knee and australia played the game we knew they would and i will not criticise checkley because he has hardly played any games on verse cricket loving the miracle england pulled off here 11 years ago they will lose the game and might lose in three days and then they go to adelaide for a day like game where, again, you expecting them to perform well and they will have james fuller stuart broad that ll albeit having played no cricket but at least they will have those bowlers on the side. pen strokes, we don t know if you will be fit enough but england are used, i m afraid, to not playing well here in brisbane and the fact australia hold the ashes means that it is more difficult to come back from one behind to win them but this