ANDREW FLINTOFF: "We played some good cricket through the Test match but it shows it can cost you, you have a bad hour and you're out of the Test match. That's what happened today.

"The plan was just to go out there and play as we can do but Shane Warne and Brett Lee were fantastic this morning and put us under the pump a little bit.

"I was pleased with the side we went into the Test match with and apart from today we did well. Just that hour today cost us.

"We're not in a great mood at the moment, at 2-0 down it is an even tougher task than last time.

"But we've got to bounce back and get ourselves right mentally and physically for the next Test in a week's time."

DUNCAN FLETCHER: "The key to it is that we can't just keep relying on Collingwood and Pietersen getting the runs.

"Crucially they have scored the bulk of the runs... the other batters have got to put their hands up and get big hundreds.

"They have set a base for us in the past."

NASSER HUSSAIN: "The third Test is going to be the biggest test of Fletcher's reign.

"He will come under the immense pressure in the next week or so.

"His selections have let him down and let England down, in Giles and (Geraint) Jones. There have been no runs and no wickets and Giles dropped a crucial catch.

"The coach has got to get his thinking cap on and work out how to get 20 wickets. It will be a difficult time for Fletcher and a difficult time for England.

"In the end, England were three overs short of saving this game but they were mesmerised this morning.

"If England had been busy, rotating the strike like Michael Hussey did, they would have saved the game.

"How did England win the last Ashes? They were aggressive. For one session they lost their aggression and they lost the match.

"Losing Kevin Pietersen was the big wicket."

GEOFF BOYCOTT: "I think the England squad is a pretty decent set of lads. When I meet them they are good lads - but stop talking a good game and start performing a good game," said the former England opener.

"It is as simple as that. Don't tell us you will come back - just do it.

"But at the moment I don't think they are capable of it."