As I said in my preview I think the Poms are a better man for man team than this Australian side but today was as much about them proving to themselves that they deserved the 'favouritism' that has been bestowed upon them.
Unfortunately, they didn't. They proved the mental frailty that Australians suspected of them.
They could come back into it tomorrow, absolutely. But even if they do the seeds have been sewn now.
Because I am an eternal optimist, the only thing that would suggest to me that this wont do irreparable mental harm is that four of the batsman did score some runs. They looked like they had big scores in them. Cook, Trott, Pietersen and Bell all played reasonable knocks, the only problem is that none of them kicked on.
The Poms aren't out of this test just yet, but if they don't put up one hell of a fight tomorrow it will be a long road back not only in this test, but because of the mental scarring it will cause, the rest of the series.
Please cricketing gods let me be wrong!
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