i was the ball after stuart broad had become peter siddle's hat—trick.se was the most ferocious. can you pick out the most ferocious. can you pick out the insults? no. if you were on the boundary, you probably could? we a lwa ys boundary, you probably could? we always used to laugh about them, because they're not particularly witty. the australian crowds, in fa ct, witty. the australian crowds, in fact, world crowds, haven't got the self—depricating wit that an english crowd has. if you've been to a football game and hear some of more intelligent things that are said, not saying that everything said at a football game is intelligent, but it's not in the same league. as an englishman, you're able to sit back and laugh at how much further we are. let's face it, if you've gone toa game are. let's face it, if you've gone to a game of sportjust to shout abuse to the men in the middle, there's something missing in your life. almost half of the 16-man england squad have never experienced an ash ashes test before. how are they likely to cope with this new experi

after the first day of the first test where peter siddle took a hat trick, we were bowled out for 230 a big lead of 200. we then got 517/1, batting, when we should have been bowled out. more a case of what that did to australia as a whole. as a team, we were buoyed by it of course, they can't get us out. they are shattered out there. gotta play again in a couple of days, they are clueless, out of ideas. their captain is out of ideas about how to get above us when the crowd have deserted them and they have turned on their own bowlers. that permeates through a dressing room. those feelings of, you know, they don't like their own players, they're cheering for us now. i always liken it to the crowd in rocky iv who start screaming for ivan drago at the start and by the end of the film, it's all "rocky, rocky, rocky." that's what you have to do with an australian crowd. talking about a happy dressing room, maybe you can sense where this is going. much of the breakdown what about kevin pietersen‘s relationship with you and some of the team and its management back in 2012, that's been in the