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Replacing Simon Katich for the third Test is the easy part for Australia. Deciding what to do with the rest of the side in Perth is the difficult bit

It turns out that there really was a ghost in the machine as England's cricketers surged to a victory that their captain, Andrew Strauss, acknowledged was the most comprehensive and complete that he has known in the course of his two-year reign

Ricky Ponting isn't sure whether the situation he'll face over the next three Tests is the biggest challenge of his career. He must quickly realise it is because he is fighting for runs, his team and his captaincy

Michael Hussey's pull shot is one of his banker strokes. He used it to fillet Graeme Swann during his 195 at Brisbane, having learnt his trade on the hard bouncy wickets of the WACA, but against the lanky Steven Finn, he hasn't had quite so much fun

Simon Katich doesn't think he has played his last Test despite a painful Achilles tear ruling him out of the rest of the Ashes series

England have one hand on the Ashes after Graeme Swann bowled them to victory with a five-wicket haul in Adelaide, where neither rain nor the lower order could save Australia on the fifth morning

Stuart Broad has admitted that he knew his Ashes tour was over from the moment he began his second spell on Monday afternoon, as England's famous innings-and-71-run victory at Adelaide was tempered by the loss of one of the key members of their bowling at

Michael Hussey has admitted that Australia will have one eye on the heavens come the final day of the second Test at Adelaide

Simon Katich will have to wait until Tuesday morning to discover whether he has any chance of playing in the third Ashes Test after suffering a painful Achilles injury

Michael Clarke has said sorry for not walking during a dramatic last-over dismissal that swung the second Test further towards England

It used to be that England's batsmen saw Shane Warne in their sleep, and he continues to stalk Kevin Pietersen in retirement

Kevin Pietersen gave England every chance of victory in Adelaide with his career-best 227, but it's his bowling that might have made the biggest difference

Kevin Pietersen, who finished the day unbeaten on 213, is adamant that Australia will not escape defeat on a pitch that is starting to show signs of breaking up

Over the past week Australia have been asking the same question as everyone else. Why aren't they taking wickets?

Plays of the Day from the third day of the second Ashes Test at Adelaide

Kevin Pietersen doesn't do things by halves, and having spent the past 18 months without a Test century it was no surprise that he turned his comeback hundred into a double as England inflicted more pain on Australia

Ian Chappell believes Australia's selectors may be forced to skip a generation in a bid to identify a new attack leader, after the three seamers chosen for the second Test at Adelaide - Doug Bollinger, Ryan Harris and Peter Siddle - suffered one of Austra

If you say something often enough you start to believe it. At least that's what Australia's resident hypnotist Brad Haddin is hoping

But for the mercy of the Gabba's extra bounce, Andrew Strauss could well be batting in binary in this series - 0, 0, 1

Alastair Cook's colossal series continued on the second day in Adelaide, where he and his batting colleagues ground Australia into submission and delivered complete control to England