Forget about winning, England cannot and will not even be competitive in the remaining test matches of this series. We will be lucky if matches go beyond the 4th day. England may make any number of selection changes, it will not matter. But in any case, Giles, Jones, Anderson and Harmison should give way to Panesar, Read, Mahmood and Plunkett to bring in a fresh look to the defeated team.

I also believe people are getting carried away with Panesar in their belief that he is the solution to all of England's bowling problems. As I have repeatedly said, left arm spinners have always struggled on Australian pitches and in addition, Panesar is quite inexperienced.

On the afternoon of day 2 at Adelaide, I said England should not declare before 700 otherwise they will lose. The thing with this Australian team is that opponents cannot afford to leave even an inch of possibility for them to bounce back.

I also believe Warne is being given more credit than he deserves for the Adelaide debacle. He has some sort of mental hold over the England batsmen, which they cannot overcome. If you do not score off any spin bowler, he is going to get on top and take wickets.