Well done Paul Collingwood. He's always been such a great team player that will fight till the death for the side and he's made this decision with the test teams future in mind aswell as his own one day career.

He'll bow out a winner aswell which is great and even though his batting hasn't been great he's played a part with his bowling and especially his fielding(his catch off Ponting in Perth was unbelievable).

Regulation 500 up, Bresnan looking a little troubled by Johnson though.

from beeb

"In Paul Collingwood's last Test match, England are on the verge of a unique feat in Test cricket. Each of the top six have scored in excess of 10,000 first class runs and, as I write, Matt Prior is just 9 runs short (58 n.o 9,994 runs). A Test top seven with 10,000 f-c runs under their belt - how special is that!?"

Looks like they will let Prior get 100 if he can ... I know I would.
It's getting a bit slow now though.

We should push it on abit now imo. Prior is doing fine but Bresnan is really struggling to find the gaps and it's slowed our progress.

he's only faced 14 balls less than prior.

Bres is on fire now

Don't think speed of runs is an issue, I can't see us declaring unless we are still batting at tea - they won't have the time to win it, and I think we can back ourselves to bowl them out in 4 sessions.

Having said that Bresnan is picking up the pace a bit now, to be fair to him he's not had much time to play himself into form on this tour.

Well done Prior!

Bresnan's batting average is back above 40, he's well on course to take over Anthony McGrath's tag as England's best ever all-rounder.

Ninth century for an England player in the series. An England record for an Ashes series.

Another record set, first time in test match history that any side has had century partnerships for the 6th, 7th and 8th wickets.

600 up

FFS, typical English batting collapse.

would have loved them to have no balled him, but was probably legal, just.