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[uknsaunders]

You could argue that Compton will get the chance to face the Aussie attack at Taunton this week which no other England player will have, so it gives the selectors a chance to look at Root as an opener and then make their decision on the position after both warm up games. However it doesn't look good for Compton if they are stating that Root is the best opening partner for Cook.

given what Miller has said I think that's being a little bit optimistic.

[vasiraju]

2-1 England.
Cook might be MoS

[Number4]

Just watching the Espn live scores for the Aus v Somerset tour match and Watson & Khawaja are having a ball hitting four after four... No singles or two's just all fours

[Number4]

Spoke too soon... Khawaja gooonnneeee

[Kulli]

Just watching the Espn live scores for the Aus v Somerset tour match and Watson & Khawaja are having a ball hitting four after four... No singles or two's just all fours

Tauntons the place to be doing that to be fair, not the biggest.

[Number4]

Tauntons the place to be doing that to be fair, not the biggest.

I think that's where the Aussies let themselves down though... They try to score too fast instead of building an innings and subsequently lose easy wickets

[petehosk]

I predict 2-1 England - the difference being the odd collapse from the Aussie batting.
But I predict that it should be a hard fought contest with not alot in it from the bowling comparison!!

MOS for Eng: Root/KP
MOS for Aus: Clarke/Starc

[mad_abt_cricket]

MOS for Aus : Watson is my intuition

[sansin]

I think Cook and Clarke and got more news from newspaper.

For more information asian newspaper

[ProCricketer1982]

England to win 2-1 BUT it'll be a struggle. I suspect Aus will do far better than people give them credit for.

Man of the series for England - Trott
Man of the series for Aus - Pattinson

[Gerry SA]

I can't see these predictions of 5-0 coming true.

As the Kiwi attack showed, England's batting can collapse.

For me the Australian attack is better than New Zealand's.

2-1 either way seems about right

The lovely English summer, do you guys ever have summer???, will wreck two Tests IMO.

[uknsaunders]

The lovely English summer, do you guys ever have summer???, will wreck two Tests IMO.

To be fair you have to be an idiot to place international matches in Cardiff. Apart from the 2009 Ashes and the India v SA ODI, I don't think they've completed many matches. Most of the country have been reasonably dry for the first part of the summer and lack of rainfall was an issue until the last week or so. Certainly better than last year!

[Twelfth Man]

I'm sure that I read somewhere that Compton's been given the opportunity to play for Worcestershire against the Australian's again, at least that shows that they haven't well and truly given up on him already. Wasn't it Strauss who turned out for Somerset a few years back as well?

[alexhilly1492]

To be fair you have to be an idiot to place international matches in Cardiff. Apart from the 2009 Ashes and the India v SA ODI, I don't think they've completed many matches. Most of the country have been reasonably dry for the first part of the summer and lack of rainfall was an issue until the last week or so. Certainly better than last year!

The Sri Lanka test match was completed but that was massively rain affected and was only finished with that massive collapse from SL

[Number4]

Good signs for the Aussies with the top 4 batsmen all scoring well against Worcestershire including a Ton for Watson