Tour Matches Round-up

By Chris Stocks in Adelaide
ENGLAND’Smain concern before this tour began was their batting, but less than two weeks before the start of the Ashes it is the bowling that is now the real worry.
A fragile top-order has undermined England over the past 18 months. Yet by the end of the second day’s play of their second tour match against a Cricket Australia XI in Adelaide, four of the top five have posted half-centuries.
Mark Stoneman, Cook’s opening partner, has done so twice having followed up his 86 in the opening warm-up match in Perth last weekend wit...