David Warner

Australia have got close to England a few times in the series only to be unable to quite catch them and when they have let chances slip they have done so in style

For the duration of his innings it appeared David Warner would get the better of England, but it wasn't meant to be. However, it confirmed that Australia can't afford for his talent to be wasted

Stuart Broad ripped through Australia with six wickets as they slumped from 120 for 1 at tea to lose by 74 runs and give England the series

That's where he wants to play and he knows he will be judged on his results at the top of the order

Michael Vaughan, writing for the Telegraph, bemoans the DRS, and Paul Hayward explains why Alastair Cook can't count himself as a great captain yet. Aaron Timms of the Guardian labels David Warner as a "Kuta Beach backpacker" that the team could do with

The recent run of defeats has made people think Australia are worse than they are. Old Trafford was a fairer reflection on their standing, but they must continue to improve over the rest of this series

Australia were always going to lose this Ashes. A victory in this Test wouldn't change that. But just by winning this Test they could have proved something to themselves

David Warner saw the lighter side of his dismissal on Sunday, when he sent a delivery from Tim Bresnan to Joe Root at deep square leg

If the rain holds off Australia could still win this Test and keep the Ashes alive, but a lot of their decisions continue to suggest confused thinking

Australia's captain Michael Clarke was far from alone in fuming as the umpires made the unilateral decision to take the teams off for bad light

David Warner's decision to review an obvious edge off his bat to Jonathan Trott, has been met with much ridicule and criticism from the fans, pundits and players alike, and his eventual dismissal was met with a wave of boos from the Old Trafford faithful

Michael Clarke has said he backed David Warner's decision to review his dismissal from a thick outside-edge despite telling Warner he thought the ball had made contact with the bat.

Australia's moustachioed cricketing pugilist made an appropriately comedic decision to review his dismissal, to the delight of the Old Trafford crowd

Plays of the day from the second day between England and Australia at Old Trafford

At an iconic venue that has seen some remarkable feats, Australia could rewrite the record books this week but not how they would have liked

The tour match at Hove wasn't enough to identify a definitive Australia XI for Old Trafford. A few individual performances stood out, as did the catching, which was dreadful

Warner was again gaining attention for the wrong reasons as he found himself in yet another heated altercation, this time with South Africa A's wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile

David Warner has admitted he needed the "kick up the bum" of being suspended and ultimately dropped from Australia's Test side after his punch at Joe Root in a Birmingham pub

David Warner's reinvention as a middle-order batsman received a tremendous boost as the left-hander amassed 193 runs against South Africa A in Pretoria