SIR JAMES ANDERSON. The first thing I would insist upon is players going back into county cricket to prove they are good enough to face New Zealand at Lord's in June ....
Comparing England's cricketers socialising between matches to a stag do is completely over the top and, as someone who has lost Test series in Australia myself, I have sympathy for them ....
England are painfully aware of Mitchell Starc's ability to strike early and they will be desperate to avoid a repeat this week. They need to keep him out but it won't be easy ....
It won't be much consolation to Ben Stokes or the England team that lost the second Test at the Gabba, but when it comes to tours going wrong in Australia, I have been in worse situations than this ....
One of the questions people have been asking in the build-up to Brisbane, given his elite record of 81 wickets in pink-ball Test matches, is how best to keep out Mitchell Starc....
You simply cannot let positions like the one England found themselves in last weekend - a hundred runs ahead with nine wickets in the tank - slip away against Australia ... So, the back-foot punches and the wide drives ... It was just the wrong shot option ... .