Australia v England, second Test
Venue: Adelaide Oval Date: 3-7 December. Match starts 0000 GMT on 3 Dec Coverage: Listen live on Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 LW and 5 live Sports Extra; text commentary on BBC Sport website and live on Sky Sports 1

Warne took 708 wickets in 145 Tests for Australia

1120 GMT: Former captain Allan Border should come to Ricky Ponting's aid in an advisory capacity to help him "tiptoe through a minefield".
Full story: Sydney Morning Herald

1110 GMT: Andrew Strauss's decision to bat on for 70 minutes into the fourth morning was questioned due to the poor weather forecast, but Telegraph cricket correspondent Derek Pringle believes you cannot have tactics dictated by the rain with two days remaining.
Full story: Daily Telegraph

1050 GMT: Ashes winner Jason Gillespie, in town for the unveiling of a statue of himself beside the nets at Adelaide Oval, is impressed by England's batting but feels the Australian selectors erred by dropping Mitchell Johnson, the home side's only real strike bowler.
Full story: The Independent

Australia's bowling stocks are so low that 71% of respondents to a survey want to see 41-year-old Shane Warne make a comeback.
Full story: Adelaide Advertiser

Details of how to perform a rain dance, which could be Australia's only Ashes hope, have been published in Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
Full story: Daily Telegraph (Sydney)

Australia's cricket has reached the bottom of the barrel and will spear through it and hit raw earth next year. Not a single player outside the Test team would make a serious difference to this Ashes series.
Full story: Herald Sun

Burn the bails. Only miraculous batting or the accuracy of severe thunderstorm warnings will prevent England going one-nil up in the series at the Adelaide Oval.
Full story: Herald Sun

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